Explains common behaviors that teachers sometimes wrongly teach their students.
Gives the formula, and has pictures to help visualize the effect.
Overview of the Coriolis effect, and how it influences the trade winds.
Animation showing how the winds should blow without the Coriolis effect, and how they actually blow...
Experiment to see the Coriolis effect which uses a turntable or globe, a ruler and chalk.
Offers a fairly simple explanation of why objects curve on the Earth when they should move straight...
Offers an illustration of how an object moving in a straight path on a rotating sphere will be seen...
Tells how the Coriolis effect is caused by the Earth's rotation.
Offers pictures and a movie which help explain the Coriolis effect.