Friday, January 18, 2019

newtonian mechanics - Coriolis force on bullet vs airplane


Why do airplanes experience negligible Coriolis force while bullets experience the Coriolis force in long range shooting, even though the mass of airplane is much bigger than a bullet?




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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