How can one, being on Earth, understand that it (and not the sky) rotates?
| September 15, 2020 | Education
Most of the experiments that make it possible to understand this are associated with the appearance of the Coriolis force: oscillations of the Foucault pendulum, the deflection of shells when firing from a cannon, the deflection of falling bodies from the vertical. The other part is related to the effects of centrifugal force: the flattening of the Earth and the change in the value of the acceleration of gravity with a change in latitude.
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