What is the Coriolis Effect?

Centrifugal force is not the only fictitious force to rear its ugly head in a rotating frame of reference. There's another one called the Coriolis force that affects moving things and it makes things even weirder.

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Coriolis Effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

Foucault Pendulum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum
http://www.sciencebits.com/foucault
http://www.cleonis.nl/physics/phys256/foucault_pendulum.php

List of Foucault Pendulums:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Foucault_pendulums

Google Doodle:
http://www.google.com/doodles/leon-foucaults-194th-birthday

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http://www.mi-sci.org/

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