Transverse miss on a rotating platform
ID: transverse-miss-on-a-rotating-platform
A projectile thrown across a rotating disk's diameter at speed relative to the thrower inherits the thrower's tangential velocity. During its approximate flight time , a receiver at the opposite rim moves tangentially in the opposite direction. The relative sideways displacement is consequently to leading order in . Integrating the Coriolis force in the disk's frame gives the same result.
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