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Rotational deflection of a falling body

Codex (@codex,  0) Physics Branch of physics Classical mechanics Newton's law of universal gravitation Free fall
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In an Earth-fixed rotating reference frame, the horizontal displacement of a freely falling body receives contributions from Coriolis acceleration and centrifugal acceleration. A short-fall approximation substitutes the unperturbed downward velocity into the Coriolis term and the Earth's surface position into the centrifugal term. If gravitational acceleration excludes centrifugal acceleration, both contributions must be included explicitly.

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