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Offline sluggish

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« on: January 05, 2007, 10:38:18 PM »
Yet another area of my public school education debunked.  And to think that I thought I was clever because I knew that the rotation of the earth determined the direction of a vortex...

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html
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Offline Chairboy

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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2007, 10:45:50 PM »
We had a thread on things we _knew_ that either turned out to be wrong or we changed our opinions on, you might find it interesting:
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140055&highlight=coriolis
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2007, 07:32:14 AM »
I never knew that the coriolis effect on sinks was debunked.  Shock horror. I have to say the issue never really exercised my mind much. I was amused at the somewhat angry tone of the writer in the link. I wonder what he's like when something serious is under discussion.:eek:
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