That curve is created by the Coriolis effect. You may have heard that it makes water in the bathtub spiral down the drain a certain way or that it determines the way a toilet flushes. That's ...

The answer is the Coriolis effect. As the Earth spins, an object on the Equator must move much faster than an object closer to the North Pole. This is because the equator is bigger in diameter ...

It does. The three ingredients needed for hurricane formation are warm oceans, light winds aloft and a sufficiently strong Coriolis effect, an apparent deflective force caused by the Earth’s ...

Flushing your toilet in the US causes the water to swirl in the opposite direction to a flushing toilet in Australia - and this is caused by a phenomenon known as the Coriolis effect.

The Coriolis Effect Exhibit demonstrates the twist through smooth, automatic oscillation by electromagnetic forces and a segmented tube optimized for slow, stable twisting.

So there is indeed a Coriolis effect, and we see it on grand scales -- hurricanes in different hemispheres tend to rotate in different directions, because the underlying Earth is spinning ...

And why do they spin in the first place? The answer is a phenomenon called the Coriolis effect. NARRATOR: If you've ever watched the news during a hurricane or wintertime nor'easter, you've ...

In particular, a subtle influence from the rotation of the earth—the Coriolis effect or force—would have shifted all their shots by about half a mile. Decades earlier a Parisian scientist by ...