5. Hold a globe so that you are looking down at the North Pole from above. If yo

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5. Hold a globe so that you are looking down at the North Pole from above. If you don't have a globe, buy one! If you don't want to buy one, use any other convenient object on which you can distinguish the top of the object ("north") from the bottom (south"). Make the globe turn counterclockwise. Now hold the globe above your head (still keeping north pole on the top) and continue to turn it in the same direction. By "same direction" I mean that if someone continued to look down on the north pole from above, they would see it turning counterclockwise. a) From below, do you see the globe turning clockwise or counterclockwise? b) What, if anything, does this have to do with the Coriolis force?

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1)Earths rotation when viewed from below or from the south pole, the globe will be moving in the clockwise direction because earth roatates on its axis in counterclockwise direction.

2) Coriolis effect is defined as the apparent deflection of the path of an object that moves inside a rotating body.The object does not actually deflect but it appears so because of the motion of the coordinate system or the rotating body in which the object is moving.So, any free moving object will be deflected towards the right if we see it in the northern hemisphere and will be seen deflecting towards the left in the sourthern hemishpere.

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