Why do storms spin one way in the Northern Hemisphere and the opposite way in the Southern Hemisphere? The Coriolis effect, ...

The video below shows four future ME 274 students playing on a merry-go-round with a ball. The video is split between two views: one from a stationary observer looking down from above, and the other ...

If there is hair on your head, that hair has at least one whorl in it—a patch of hair that grows out of the scalp in a spiral direction. It makes good sense. Hair set in lines on a sphere simply can’t ...

This physical effect does explain how some massive natural phenomena like hurricanes behave. But on the scale of water in your sink – not so much.

Everything that moves over the surface of the earth-water, air, animals, machines and projectiles-sidles to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern ...

Wind moves the surface waters by friction, but away from the equator the Coriolis effect means this is diverted, to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left south of the equator ...

Northern California is expecting heavy rain from a "bomb cyclone." The term pops up from time to time in weather stories. But ...