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The coriolis effect does exist in a flat earth | 439 comments | Create New Account
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The coriolis effect does exist in a flat earth
Authored by: jesse on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 11:04 PM EDT
The Coriolis effect does exist in a flat earth, as long as that flat plain is
rotating about an axis. It is called a "centripetal force" at that
point.

I think (not sure) that there are mathematical models for such, though the
effect of the curvature is inaccurate after you pass about 400 miles.

I used to work with navigation systems in an xy plain. They work within a
limited area. We had special fudge factors provided that allowed us to move the
center of the area of interest to nearly anywhere on earth. The way it worked
was that the mathematical plane intersected the real 3D spheroid in an
"average depth" for the area of interest. This makes the model
"wrong" at the edges, and in the center - but the error gets spread
over most of the area giving the result "close enough" (meaning within
10-20 feet).

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