Fictitious forces (4/5): Coriolis – how not to teach it
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…
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Fictitious forces (3/5): Coriolis force — how we think it should be taught
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
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
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…