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On 2003-02-06 21:37, kilopi wrote:
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On 2003-02-06 17:19, mik sawicki wrote:
4. Page 24, second line, continuation:
"10 meters (33 feet)"
I got 9 km (kilometers), i.e. about 1000 times more, a reasonable result
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I think the 10 meters was just an extrapolation of the 3mm/second times an hour, which does give around 10 meters. If your figure was even more teeny than that, how'd did you get 1000 times more?
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It's quite simple, actually. The Coriolis force here does not change much over a 100 km distance, so we can treat it as approximately constant. Now, a constant force produces constant acceleration, and distance will be proportional to the time SQUARED. Since the deflection is 0.7 mm after 1 second, it will be (3600)^2 times larger after 1 hour. This gives approximately 9 km.
Likewise, I stand by my other results.
Mik Sawicki