Coriolis force Archives - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

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”.…

Tag: Coriolis force

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”

Contact me!

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Search "Adventures in Teaching and Oceanography"

Archives

Recent Posts

Categories

Tags