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- A result of the deflective force of the
- Earth's west to east rotation. Winds, ocean
- currents, and aircraft are deflected to the
- right of their direction of travel in the
- Northern hemisphere and to the left in the
- Southern hemisphere. The effect has to be
- allowed for in launching guided missiles, but
- despite popular belief it has negligible
- effect on the clockwise or anti-clockwise
- direction of water running out of a bath.
- Named after its discoverer, French
- mathematician Gaspard Coriolis (1792-1843).
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