Particle Moving on a Rotating Disk

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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 (April 2007)
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Published: April 29 2007