The Coriolis force is an apparent force that acts on moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating frame of reference, such as the spinning Earth. It is named after the French engineer and mathematician Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, who analysed the equations of motion in rotating systems in a paper on machines like water wheels. On Earth it deflects moving air and water to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern, which is why large storms rotate counterclockwise in the north and clockwise in the south. It is essential in meteorology and oceanography, shaping winds and currents, though it is far too weak to determine the direction in which water drains from a sink.
Before and after
- 27 January 1834Birth of Dmitri Mendeleev
- 16 February 1834Birth of Ernst Haeckel
- 19 July 1834Birth of Edgar Degas
- 1835Publication of Kalevala
- 1835Coriolis force
- 2 June 1835Birth of Pius X
- 27 July 1835Birth of Giosuè Carducci
- 30 August 1835Founding of Melbourne
- from 20 September 1835 to 1 March 1845Farroupilha Revolution
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