Coriolis effect on flower development?
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Is it just me or do the flowers follow the Coriolis spin in their development? Hmmm... you mean the Coriolis effect, which states that if an object, which moves in a straight direction, is placed within a disc that rotates will appear to be following a curve given that the observer is on the rotating disc? It's quite hazy when comparing the 2 things. Can you further elaborate on what you mean?
grandpa 1949
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Here is the definition of the Coriolis effect:
Now what are you trying to say?
For the psychophysical perception effect, see Coriolis effect (perception).
Figure 1: In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black object moves in a straight line, without significant friction with the disc. However, the observer (red dot) who is standing in the rotating (non-inertial) frame of reference (lower part of the picture) sees the object as following a curved path due to the Coriolis and centrifugal forces present in this frame.
In physics, the Coriolis effect is a deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame. In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the deflection is to the left of the motion of the object; in one with counter-clockwise rotation, the deflection is to the right. The mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, and also in the tidal equations of Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1778. And even earlier, Italian scientists Giovanni Battista Riccioli and his assistant Francesco Maria Grimaldi described the effect in connection with artillery in the 1651 Almagestum Novum, writing that rotation of the Earth should cause a cannon ball fired to the north to deflect to the east.[SUP][1][/SUP] Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.
Now what are you trying to say?
For the psychophysical perception effect, see Coriolis effect (perception).
Figure 1: In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black object moves in a straight line, without significant friction with the disc. However, the observer (red dot) who is standing in the rotating (non-inertial) frame of reference (lower part of the picture) sees the object as following a curved path due to the Coriolis and centrifugal forces present in this frame.In physics, the Coriolis effect is a deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame. In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the deflection is to the left of the motion of the object; in one with counter-clockwise rotation, the deflection is to the right. The mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, and also in the tidal equations of Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1778. And even earlier, Italian scientists Giovanni Battista Riccioli and his assistant Francesco Maria Grimaldi described the effect in connection with artillery in the 1651 Almagestum Novum, writing that rotation of the Earth should cause a cannon ball fired to the north to deflect to the east.[SUP][1][/SUP] Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.
nedyah
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Or the trajectory at which a bullet can travel at long distances