 In whatever direction a body moves on the surface of the earth, there is a force arising from the earth's rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere.  Science - Page 291884Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Ernest Gregory, Albert Galloway Keller, Avard Longley Bishop - 1910 - 502 pages
...the earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere." Permanent north and south winds, therefore, are practically unknown, and are replaced... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Simmons, Ernest Stenhouse - 1912 - 456 pages
...earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation which tends to deflect it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere. Belts of calms. — Zones in which there is little horizontal circulation of the atmosphere... | |
 | Frank Hagar Bigelow - 1915 - 458 pages
...angles to the linear velocity q with which a mass is moving in any direction. They deflect a moving body to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere. The deflecting force is a maximum and equal to 2 w3 q on the horizontal plane at the poles;... | |
 | William John Miller - 1924 - 456 pages
...the earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere." Streams respond to this law and, therefore, tend to swing against and erode their right... | |
 | William Pickering Rutter - 1925 - 466 pages
...earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation which tends to deflect it to the right in the Northern Hemisphere, but to the left in the Southern Hemisphere." In the Northern Hemisphere the northerly wind that would naturally blow in towards the... | |
 | 1904 - 694 pages
...the earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation, which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere." It does not matter in what direction the body is moving it is still subject to this law.... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1868 - 544 pages
...moves on the surface of the earth, there is a force arising from the earth's rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere. From this force there must arise a change in the level of the sea wherever its waters have... | |
 | William P. Crawford - 1992 - 334 pages
...Confusion can stem from it, though. An older practice described a veering wind as one which shifts to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern. And by that view a backing wind was just the opposite. That outlook is waning, but it still might have... | |
 | John E. Oliver - 2008 - 873 pages
...the earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation, which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere" (Ferrel, 1856). Rhodes W. Fairbridge Bibliography Clayton, HH, 1923. World Weather. New... | |
 | 1876 - 1108 pages
...moves on the surface of the earth, there is a force arising from the earth's rotation which deflects it to the right in the Northern hemisphere, but to the left in the Southern. The chapter treats of the topographical features and climate of the State and contains a long table of... | |
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