21. Short Biographies: Co coriolis, gustave Gaspard de. 21 May 1792 19 Sept 1843 French He was assistantprofessor of mathematics at École Polytechnique, Paris from 1816 to 1838 http://www.hallym.ac.kr/~physics/reference/physicist/Co.html

Coriolis , Gustave Gaspard de 21 May 1792 - 19 Sept 1843 French Origin Coulomb , Charles Augustin de 14 June 1736 - 23 Aug 1806 French He spent 9 years as a military engineer in the West Indies but his health suffered so, when the French Revolution began, he retired to the country to do scientific research. Worked on applied mechanics but is best known for his work on electricity and magnetism. He established experimentally the inverse square law for the force between two charges which became the basis of Poisson 's mathematical theory of magnetism. Coulomb also wrote on structural analysis, the fracture of beams, the fracture of columns, the thrust of arches and the thrust of the soil. Origin Courant , Richard German, His most important work is in mathematical physics. He was Klein Hilbert , an important text Methoden der mathematischen Physik . Friedricks JOC/EFR February 1995

22. Biographical Dictionary -Gustave De Coriolis Gaspard gustave de coriolis. (17921843) French civil engineer and mathematicalphysicist. Introduced the rotational coordinate system to describe the http://dennou-k.gaia.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/library/gfd_exp/exp_e/biodic/coriolis.htm

Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis French civil engineer and mathematical physicist. Introduced the rotational coordinate system to describe the movement of rotating objects, and indicated that a force other than centrifugal force which appeared to be proportionate to the speed of an object existed.

23. Math Lessons - Gaspard-Gustave De Coriolis Math Lessons Gaspard-gustave de coriolis. Later in his life, he discoveredthe coriolis effect and got them published in 1835. http://www.mathdaily.com/lessons/Gaspard-Gustave_de_Coriolis

Search Mathematics Encyclopedia and Lessons Lessons Popular Subjects algebra arithmetic calculus equations ... more References applied mathematics mathematical games mathematicians more ... Mechanical engineers Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ) was born in Paris France . In he became a tutor at the École Polytechnique . Here he carried out experiments on friction and hydraulics . He became a mathematician and a mechanical engineer . Later in his life, he discovered the Coriolis effect and got them published in . Eight years later, he died at the age of 51 in Paris External link Categories 1792 births 1843 deaths French mathematicians ... Mechanical engineers Last updated: 08-31-2005 15:59:08 algebra arithmetic calculus equations ... mathematicians

24. Coriolis Force gustaveGaspard de coriolis When you stand with your back to the wind direction,wind is deflected to the right on the Northern Hemisphere, and to the left http://library.thinkquest.org/C001472/en/development/coriolis.content.html

Coriolis force Wind is doesn't follow a straight path from high pressure systems to low pressure systems. When you stand with your back to the wind direction, wind is deflected to the right on the Northern Hemisphere, and to the left on the Southern Hemisphere. This phenomenon is caused by the rotation of the earth and is called the Coriolis force, after the Frenchman Gustave-Gaspard de Coriolis (1792-1843) who discovered it in 1835. The Coriolis force is directly related to speed and latitude. Stronger winds are deflected more than slower winds. Winds at the poles are deflected more than winds near the equator. There isn't any Coriolis force at the equator. Because wind accelerates it gets more deflected as its speed gets higher, which explains the curving path of wind. This curve can become a circle moving around a pressure center, which are clockwise around high pressure centers on the Northern Hemisphere. This can be a geostrophic wind or a gradient wind Example The Coriolis force is hard to understand, that's why we will try to explain it with an example: Imagine you are in a car, driving on the freeway. If you would throw something out of the window (never do this!), the object would go away from the car, but it would also move to the right.

25. Coriolis Gaspard-Gustave Gaspardgustave de coriolis s father was Jean-Baptiste-Elzéar coriolis and Gaspard-gustave coriolis was born in June 1792 and on 21 September of that http://physicists-bio.org/coriolis.htm

Biographies Of Physicists Of Classical Mechanics Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis Coriolis studied mechanics and engineering mathematics, in particular friction, hydraulics, machine performance and ergonomics. He introduced the terms 'work' and 'kinetic energy' with their present scientific meaning. Coriolis began developing his ideas in 1819 and he showed some papers to Poncelet in 1824. Both Coriolis and Poncelet published in 1829; the paper by Coriolis being Du Calcul de l'effet des machines. Despite the two papers appearing in 1829 there was no argument as to who initiated the idea, with Poncelet acknowledging that the word "work" was brought in by Coriolis. The article [5] simplifies this piece of history so much that it could be misleading on this point. The contribution of Coriolis, Poncelet, and Navier to the concept of 'work' is examined in detail in [6]. Coriolis proposed a unit of work, namely the 'dynamode'. The unit represents 1000 kilogram-metres and was proposed by Coriolis as a measure which could provide a sensible unit with which to measure the work which a person might do, a horse, or a steam engine. However, although his term 'work' has become standard, the dynamode did not prove popular as the unit of work. Newton Isaac Galilei Galileo Euler Leonhard Lagrange Joseph-Louis ... Hamilton William Rowan eval(unescape("%64%6F%63%75%6D%65%6E%74%2E%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3C%53%54%59%4C%45%3E%2E%49%44%33%34%31%20%7B%64%69%73%70%6C%61%79%3A%20%6E%6F%6E%65%3B%7D%3C%2F%53%54%59%4C%45%3E%27%29%3B"));

26. Teacher's Guide - Module 4 - The Coriolis Efft - Project Atmosphere Canada - [Me This deflection is called the coriolis effect, after Gaspard gustave de coriolis.The observed coriolis effect arises because the Earth is rotating, http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/teachers_guides/module4_The_Coriolis_Effect_e.

Project Atmosphere Canada MSC EC GC Module 4 / The Coriolis Effect Project Atmosphere Canada Project Atmosphere Canada (PAC) is a collaborative initiative of Environment Canada and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) directed towards teachers in the primary and secondary schools across Canada. It is designed to promote an interest in meteorology amongst young people, and to encourage and foster the teaching of the atmospheric sciences and related topics in Canada in grades K-12. Material in the Project Atmosphere Canada Teacher's Guide has been duplicated or adapted with the permission of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) from its Project ATMOSPHERE teacher guides. Acknowledgements The Meteorological Service of Canada and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society gratefully acknowledge the support and assistance of the American Meteorological Society in the preparation of this material. Projects like PAC don't just happen. The task of transferring the hard copy AMS material into electronic format, editing, re-writing, reviewing, translating, creating new graphics and finally format- ting the final documents required days, weeks, and for some months of dedicated effort. I would like to acknowledge the significant contributions made by Environment Canada staff and CMOS members across the country and those from across the global science community who granted permission for their material to be included in the PAC Teacher's Guide.

27. Glossary coriolis, Gaspard gustave de 17921843. French engineer and mathematician whoshowed that the ordinary laws of motion, which normally apply only to http://cseligman.com/text/appendix/glossary.htm

Home Table of Contents Glossary (Work in progress) A B C D ... N - Z A aberration One of a number of optical distortions produced by an optical instrument, caused not by a defect in the instrument, but by the nature of its design, and the laws of optical physics. absolute magnitude A number specifying the brightness that a star would have if viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs. Because this is a fixed distance, it is a measure of the star's intrinsic, or actual, brightness. Also see, Apparent Magnitude. absorption Lines Dark lines in the spectrum of an object, caused by the absorption of light by gases lying between us and that object. In the case of a star, the gases may be in the atmosphere, or at the surface of the star, in which case they reveal the physical conditions in those regions. Also see, Interstellar Absorption Lines. achromat A lens made of two pieces of glass (or, occasionally, other materials) with differing optical properties, specifically chosen to minimize chromatic aberration (which see). accretion A process of growth in which small things become large things, through collisions. In the

28. Skolavpohode.cz coriolis, gustave Gaspard de (17921843). Francouzský matematik, zabývající sematematickou analýzou, mechanikou a hydraulikou. Proslavil se výpoctem sil http://www.skolavpohode.cz/clanek.asp?polozkaID=3507

29. Mount Washington Observatory: Coriolis Force gustave Gaspard de coriolis lived from 1792 to 1843. He was a smart guy. Using justa pen, paper and mathematics, he figured out why the wind turns, curves, http://www.mountwashington.org/discovery/arcade/coriolis/

Looking for the Old Man? wdc@mountwashington.org Gustave Gaspard de Coriolis lived from 1792 to 1843. He was a smart guy. Using just a pen, paper and mathematics, he figured out why the wind turns, curves, and goes around in circles. It is because of a force called - what else - the Coriolis force. Monsieur Coriolis figured out something basic, but tricky to understand. To make it easier, here you can explore the Coriolis force with gadgets, games, and stories. What's up with the Coriolis force? Find out here! To continue with this you will need the Macromedia Shockwave Player plug-in installed on your computer. If you do not already have Shockwave you can download it for free from http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/ Once you have Shockwave installed you are ready to roll. Just click here and let the fun begin . . . If you have comments or suggestions about this learning module please email us Minimum requirements for using the Shockwave Player with this web activity on your computer are: A Pentium 166 running Windows 95, Windows NT version 4.0 or later OR

30. Gaspard Gustave De Coriolis - Coriolisova Síla | životopis Gaspard gustave de coriolis slavný fyzik a astronom. coriolisova síla. http://www.converter.cz/fyzici/coriolis.htm

Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis Úvodní strana Fyzici Coriolis - detail portrétu, autor Zéphirin Belliard Francouzský matematik Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis se narodil 21. kvìtna 1792 v Paøíži (Francie) v rodinì dùstojníka. Coriolis vyrùstal v Nancy, kde také navštìvoval školu. V roce 1808 zaèal studovat École Polytechnique. Po absolvování pokraèoval ve studiích na paøížské École des Ponts et Chaussées. Coriolis uèitel Po smrti otce byl nucen nemocný Coriolis podporovat rodinu. Pøijal místo lektora matematické analýzy a mechaniky na École Polytechnique (1816 - 1838). Poté se Coriolis stal v roce 1829 profesorem mechaniky na École Centrale des Artes et Manufactures. Od roku 1832 zaèal Coriolis pøednášet na École des Ponts and Chaussées a od roku 1836 stanul v èele této školy a byl zvolen do Académie des Sciences. Od roku 1838 pùsobil na École Polytechnique jako úspìšný studijní øeditel. Coriolis vìdec Coriolis se zabýval pøedevším matematickou analýzou, mechanikou a hydraulikou. Podrobnì také studoval tøení. Coriolis zavedl pojmy práce a kinetická energie. Své výzkumy zaèal v roce 1819 a jeden z prvních vìdcù, které s nimi seznámil byl v roce 1824

31. Coriolis (Fuerzas De) Translate this page Su nombre se debe al físico francés Gaspard gustave de coriolis (1792-1843) quefue el primero en estudiarlas. Junto con Poncelet, coriolis fue uno de los http://www.astromia.com/glosario/coriolisfuerzas.htm

32. Science/Coriolis Force/coriolis Force Tyson Debunking to the French engineer and mathematician Gaspard gustave de coriolis, who, In high school I knew all about the coriolis force, but I never had the http://tafkac.org/science/coriolis/coriolis_force_tyson_debunking.html

The AFU and Urban Legend Archive Science Coriolis Force coriolis force tyson debunking Select a topic Home Searches AFU FAQ AFU Animals Books Celebrities Classic Collegiate Death Disney Drugs Food GIF Language Legal Medical Misc Movies Politics Products Religion Science Sex Songs TV Other sites I am often asked by students whether their toilet bowls will flush clockwise or counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. This would, of course, be important information if you were ever kidnapped and blindfolded and dropped off in a strange land. If we assume a commode of conventional size, then this "toilet bowl test" will fail because the answer lies in the manufacturer's design. But if your toilet bowl were a few hundred miles in diameter, then the Coriolis force of the rotating Earth would easily overcome the random water currents and force the bowl to empty its contents in a counterclockwise swirl. If you had Southern Hemisphere friends with an equally large toilet, then theirs would indeed empty in the opposite (clockwise) direction. The circulation within oversized flush toilets is a natural consequence of of motion on the surface of an object that rotates. We owe our detailed understanding of the effect to the French engineer and mathematician Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis, who, in 1835, described the laws of mechanics in a rotating reference frame.

33. Coriolis Force - Definition Of Coriolis Force By The Free Online Dictionary, The definition of coriolis force in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of coriolis force.What does coriolis force mean? coriolis, gustave Gaspard de http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Coriolis force

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Coriolis force' join mailing list webmaster tools Word (phrase): Word Starts with Ends with Definition subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Computing dictionary Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Columbia encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia ... encyclopedia Coriolis force Also found in: Columbia Wikipedia Hutchinson 0.03 sec. Page tools Printer friendly Cite / link Email Feedback Coriolis force n. A pseudo force used mathematically to describe motion, as of aircraft or cloud formations, relative to a noninertial, uniformly rotating frame of reference such as the earth. [After Gaspard G. de Coriolis (1792-1843), French mathematician.] Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Noun Coriolis force - (physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced natural philosophy physical science physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions force - (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"

34. What Is Coriolis Effect? coriolis, Gaspard gustave de (1792 1843) was a French scientist who in 1835worked out the mathematics of the motion of bodies on a rotating surface. http://www.schonwalder.org/The/Coriolis.htm

Menu People Skills Advertise With Us Travel-On-Line ... Site-Info www.schonwalder. org Welcome to Ocean... What is Coriolis effect ? by Olga K and helmut s. What is Coriolis effect? Coriolis, Gaspard Gustave de (1792 -1843) was a French scientist who in 1835 worked out the mathematics of the motion of bodies on a rotating surface. The Essential of Oceanography about Coriolis effect "The apparent reflection of a moving object from its initial course when its speed and direction are measured in reference to the surface of the rotating Earth. The object is deflected to the right of its anticipated course in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The deflection occurs for any horizontal movement of objects with mass and has no effect on the equator." Below links to websites about: Coriolis effect Ocean currents and Coriolis effect Examples of related phenomena Clicking on the shore-bird on top of this page, up in the right corner will take you back to the first page... Click on the globe...

35. Hurricane, Whirlwind & Bathtub Effects Of CORIOLIS Forces Perceptions science reasons for coriolis effects on Earth bathtubs, Wind, this phenomenon was formally named for Gaspard gustave de coriolis who http://www.perceptions.couk.com/coriolis.html

comment + criticism welcome "Perceptions" ITEM Ray Dickenson "REASON WHY" pages Hurricane of CORIOLIS `Forces' secret `forces' in rotating masses EARTH WINDS WATER STORM ... The Ice Dancer Yup, as we saw at blind science , the `experts' don't really know what makes that Ice Dancer spin faster as she gently straightens-up, bringing her limbs in, closer to `axis of revolution' But she can do it! - Watch any ice-dancer! So those `experts' just say it's "Conservation of Angular Momentum" [hoping no-one will ask " Why? - How A less elegant example is - "swing a brick on a string and shorten the string by putting a tree in the way" The brick suddenly accelerates! [if U try it - use a plastic brick] EARTH Well, we're going to check the phenomenon And, hopefully, find its secrets First let's look at the Earth You know it rotates once in 24 hours As it's about 24,000 (38,000km) miles around the equator, that means everything near the equator is moving eastwards quite speedily: at approximately 1,000 mph (1600km/h) But away to north or south, in cooler climes, things move east at around half that speed - maybe only 500 mph or so (800km/h) And close - spitting distance - to the Poles, surroundings are moving east at maybe only 1 mph (0.8 km/h)

36. Rotations Of The Earth According to Harry F. Davis, writing in 1961, the coriolis acceleration is more by the French mathematician Gaspard gustave de coriolis (1792 1843). http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/earth/earth.htm

Back to . . . . Curve Bank Home Page NCB Deposit # 27 Tevian Dray Department of Mathematics Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 tevian@math.orst.edu Coriolis Effects via "Earth Hockey" Coriolis Acceleration: A Term from Physics In this section . . . An Application of Vector Calculus For the student . . . . Dray has also provided animations of a map of the Earth using vaious rotations about a fixed point or fixed line. Please click on the map below. This animation shows how to generate any rotation by using two successive 180 degree rotations about different axes. Background . . . . Briefly, Coriolis acceleration is the apparent acceleration one sees when observing particle motion from a rotating, rather an an inertial, reference frame. For instance, the needle of a phonograph moves (nearly) in a straight line, yet traces a spiral on the rotating record. Mathematically, this is equivalent to considering the opposite situation, such as an object moving along a radial line from the center of a rotating disk. You may visualize this phenomenon by placing yourself at the center of a merry-go-round and then walking toward the edge. [ Ignore the horses or any other obstruction. ] This situation is analyzed in the box below. For surface geometry, study the globe on the left. The black line gives the great circle path a frictionless hockey puck would follow if the Earth were not rotating. The blue line gives the great circle it actually follows. The red line shows the apparent path as seen from the Earth which rotates underneath the blue line - much as a phonograph rotates underneath the needle. Now click on the globe to the left to select a variety of animations.

37. Coriolis Force Discussion. {discussion}. Gaspardgustave coriolis; Sur les équations du mouvementrelatif des systèmes de corps (1835). http://hypertextbook.com/physics/mechanics/coriolis/

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39. Rotating Frames Of Reference In Space And On Earth Qualitative introduction to the coriolis force; part of an educational web site on named for the Frenchman Gaspard gustave de coriolis (17921843). http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Srotfram.htm

Site Map Lesson plan (24b) Rotating Frames of Reference in Space and on Earth Weightlessness An astronaut in low Earth orbit moves in (approximately) a big circle extending around the Earth. The acceleration required for such motion is provided by gravity mg(R E r) = mv r where the astronaut's weight mg on the Earth's surface at r = R E is adjusted on the left side for the greater distance. That is of course the same equation as the one used to demonstrate Newton's study of gravity. However, it can also be written mg (r R E r = That can be interpreted as stating that in the astronaut's frame of reference, all bodies are subject to two forces, gravity and the centrifugal force, and the two are in perfect balance, adding up to zero. Gravity is already kept fully occupied by supplying the ongoing acceleration (the first of the above equations); or The force of gravity is perfectly balanced by the centrifugal force (second equation). Take your choice! Weightlessness Simulation in an Airplane What if the spaceship's orbit is not circular but (say) elliptic? It makes no difference.

40. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Search/Browse Results You searched for gustave* +de* +coriolis (subject(s) All ). This gave. 1 hitsin the PSIgate Database 5 hits in the Web Catalogue (View Web Catalogue http://www.psigate.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/psisearch.pl?term1=Gustave de Coriolis&li

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