Coriolis Acceleration -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Coriolis Acceleration

The acceleration corresponding to the Coriolis force,

where is the angular velocity of the rotating reference frame and v is the radial velocity of a particle relative to the center of the rotating reference frame.

Coriolis Force, Coriolis Frequency, Coriolis Parameter

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