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Supporting conceptual understanding of the Coriolis force through laboratory experiments

May 3, 2019

My friend Pierré and I started working on this article when both of us were still working at the Geophysical Institute in Bergen. It took forever to get published, mainly…

Experiment: Demystifying the Coriolis force

August 3, 2018

Mirjam S. Glessmer & Pierré D. de Wet Abstract Even though experiments – whether demonstrated to, or personally performed by students – have been part of training in STEM for…

Why do we go to all the hassle of rotating our swimming pool?

September 11, 2017

This blog post was written for Elin Darelius & team’s blog (link) which you should totally follow if you aren’t already! — We have started rotating and filling water into…

“Coriolis fountain”

February 14, 2017

We’ve been thinking about Coriolis deflection a lot recently (see links at the end of this post). But this weekend, at Phaenomenta Flensburg, I came across a so-called “Coriolis fountain”.…

Fictitious forces (4/5): Coriolis – how not to teach it

January 26, 2017

Some demonstrations are really not as clever as we thought they might be. We have talked about how to teach aspects of the Coriolis force recently, and just to spice it…

Fictitious forces (3/5): Coriolis force — how we think it should be taught

January 24, 2017

So how do we teach about the Coriolis force? The following is a shortened version of an article that Pierre de Wet and I wrote when I was still in…

Fictitious forces (2/5): Experiencing frames of reference on a playground

January 19, 2017

How can you be moving in one frame of reference, yet not moving in another? We talked about the difficulty of different frames of reference recently, so today I want…

Fictitious forces (1/5): Record players and Coriolis deflection

January 17, 2017

An experiment showing how seemingly straight trajectories can be transformed into curly ones. One of the phenomena that are really not intuitive to understand are fictitious forces. Especially relevant in…

Tag: Coriolis deflection

Supporting conceptual understanding of the Coriolis force through laboratory experiments

Experiment: Demystifying the Coriolis force

Why do we go to all the hassle of rotating our swimming pool?

“Coriolis fountain”

Fictitious forces (4/5): Coriolis – how not to teach it

Fictitious forces (3/5): Coriolis force — how we think it should be taught

Fictitious forces (2/5): Experiencing frames of reference on a playground

Fictitious forces (1/5): Record players and Coriolis deflection

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