"First get a long East-West terminal and see if we can roll a ball all the way to the end of the hallway. There shouldn’t be any Coriolis deflection in that case"
The author is confused. That statement would only be true on the Equator. In the northern hemisphere, the ball will always deflect to the right. If I put a pencil on a globe, I can intuitively understand why, sometimes for up to five minutes!
The author is confused. That statement would only be true on the Equator. In the northern hemisphere, the ball will always deflect to the right. If I put a pencil on a globe, I can intuitively understand why, sometimes for up to five minutes!