Tag: Ottokar Tumlirz
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Lest We Forget the Pioneer: Ottokar Tumlirz and His Early Demo of the Coriolis Effect
Two years ago I wrote an article about The Myth of the Toilet Flush, comparing the angular rotation caused by the earth’s rotation to the typical rotation in experiments with garden hoses that make it easy to observe the Coriolis effect. There are several orders of magnitude in difference, and the effect can only be…
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The Twisted Garden Hose and the Myth of the Toilet Flush
If you have wrapped your head around why and how the U-shaped tube in the flow meter (described in my previous post) is twisted by the Coriolis force – here is a video of a simple experiment brought to my attention by the author of the quoted article on gyroscope physics: You could also test it…