 | 1884 - 660 lehte
...customary, in speaking of the deflective force that arises from the earth's rotation, to say that it acts to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern. The reason for this is not found in a change in the direction of the force, but only in a change in our... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 668 lehte
...customary, in speaking of the deflective force that arises from the earth's rotation, to say that it acts to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern. The reason for this is not found in a change in the direction of the force, but only in a change in our... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1887 - 146 lehte
...Ferrel's Law. — Taking all these motions into consideration, we may now state the law generally, that " in whatever direction a body moves on the surface of the earth, there is a force arising from the eartKs rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere but toward the left in the... | |
 | Hugh Robert Mill - 1889 - 410 lehte
...gave a simple statement of this action which should be learnt and remembered : — FERREL'S LAW. — In whatever direction a body moves on the surface...deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but toward the left in the southern. This law holds for moving air, and to some extent for rivers on land,... | |
 | John Thornton (M.A.) - 1890 - 372 lehte
...also for all intermediate directions, and we thus arrive at the general law given by Professor Ferrel. In whatever direction a body moves on the surface...northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern. This deflecting force is zero at the equator and increases with an increase of latitude. 234. Kegions... | |
 | 1890 - 746 lehte
...banks of the Volga : " If a body moves in any direction on the earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation, which deflects...northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere." The whole subject of atmospheric circulation on the large scale rests on this law of deflection,... | |
 | Hugh Robert Mill - 1892 - 454 lehte
...meteorologist, Professor Ferrel: If a body moves in any direction on the Earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the Earth's rotation, which deflects...northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern hemisphere. The moving body has a tendency to keep on in a straight line; it is the Earth that changes... | |
 | Frank Waldo - 1893 - 522 lehte
...published (in June, 1859) his independent and, as he then supposed, entirely original theorem : — " In whatever direction a body moves on the surface...deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, and to the left in the southern." Using these just mentioned results as a basis for more special investigations,... | |
 | John Thornton (M.A.) - 1893 - 378 lehte
...also for all intermediate directions, and we thus arrive at the general law given by Professor Ferrel. In whatever direction a body moves on the surface of the earth, there is a force arising from the eartKs rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, but to the left in the southern.... | |
 | Frank Waldo - 1894 - 514 lehte
...published (in June, 1859) his independent and, as he then supposed, entirely original theorem : — " In whatever direction a body moves on the surface...deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere, and to the left in the southern." Using these just mentioned results as a basis for more special investigations,... | |
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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. 
