• Re: The rotating hurricane

    From Lee Tsekhansky Balaban@21:1/5 to J. J. Lodder on Mon Dec 4 16:14:30 2023
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics

    J. J. Lodder wrote:

    mitchr...@gmail.com <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> wrote:

    what is pushing its loose round motion? Coriolis gave a direction. But
    what gives its needed speed from all directions? and do winds go away
    in the end? What keeps a tornado turning round?
    Winds can't come from all directions... Winds are unidirectional.

    Excercise: Derive the rotation rate of a Foucault pendulum at an
    arbitrary latitude, inertially, without using Coriolis forces.

    nonsense. That's turbulence, large scale.

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