Get out your calculators!
04-11-2007, 11:50 AM
#21
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Indy
Posts: 61
RE: Get out your calculators!
ORIGINAL: Arthur P
What moon phase? Any special planetary alignments? And do we have to allow for the Coriolis Force also?
What moon phase? Any special planetary alignments? And do we have to allow for the Coriolis Force also?
building on this, we need to know which hemisphere the arrow was shot in
04-11-2007, 12:58 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West Tennessee
Posts: 2,333
RE: Get out your calculators!
Oh yeah, the Coriolis Affect. Since they said it was in the northern hemisphere, the arrow would want to deviate to the right of wind direction. Vice-versa for the southern hemisphere.
(Sorry.... just finished my Oceanography final exam.)
(Sorry.... just finished my Oceanography final exam.)
