Re: Where Exactly Is The Equator

"Mike Coon" <mjcoon@@connectfee.co.uk> wrote:

I never did get my PhD and haven't done the relevant calculations but I
readily believe that even the most stringent laboratory conditions would not
reveal the effect. Since it depends on the Coriolis effect which relates to
the different radius of daily rotation around the Earth's axis of the
extreme North and South sides of the container, you will readily see that
near the Equator is where the effect is at a minimum anyway.

It is possible to demonstrate the effect in the laboratory.
(at moderate latitudes)
It takes -a lot- of care though.

There is no way of doing it near the equator,

Jan

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