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Particle Moving on a Rotating Disk
This Demonstration shows the trajectory of a particle moving on a disk rotating with constant angular velocity, until the particle gets to the edge of the disk. The particle undergoes Coriolis acceleration.
Contributed by:
Enrique Zeleny
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Contributed by:
Enrique Zeleny
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