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  • In my humble opinion, to call gravity a force as legitimate as calling centrifugal force or coriolis force as a force.

    Bad Language: “Gravitational Force” 2009

  • And I should confess that I do not see what is gained by abandoning such a common usage – I would say all that GR does is to say that gravity is on the same class as coriolis force not that gravity is not a force.

    Bad Language: “Gravitational Force” 2009

  • He'd heard lectures on planetary weather: the variations in temperature, "wind chill factor," and the coriolis forces that cause air to whirl with force sufficient to tear dwellings apart: A vast worldwide storm. accidentally formed, beyond the control of fithp.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • Lambourne et al discuss the way the coriolis effect, created by the constant rotation, would determine life inside such an environment.

    MIND MELD: Scientific Accuracy in Stories 2008

  • She is the virgin-harlot†witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.

    alia and michael | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Some rattleback merchants wrongly tout the toy as a model demonstrating the coriolis force.

    Archive 2008-07-01 doyle 2008

  • After calulating in the distance, wind speed and direction, and coriolis effect, one guy took a "Davy Crockett" .22 LR shot with iron sights and scored.

    The True Nature of Hunting 2006

  • Some rattleback merchants wrongly tout the toy as a model demonstrating the coriolis force.

    Classroom toys: rattlebacks doyle 2008

  • The deflection of the trajectory of a system as it moves away from the equator is affected by increasing coriolis effect and an important part of this is changing angular momentum am.

    Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit 2007

  • Jerry, on #207 points raised 1. This is a standard textbook formula based on the linear inviscid incompressible equations with buoyancy and constant stratification, but ignoring the density scale height and coriolis, which only slightly complicate the equation.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

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