Gustave-gaspard coriolis biography of christopher

  • Coriolis was a French mathematician and mechanical engineer who discovered and derived the equations for the pseudo-forces needed to describe motion.
  • Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis obtained his celebrated theorem on relative motion.
  • Christopher Graney imagines how the Copernican Revolution might've avoided the science and religion wars.

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    Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

    Catholic Scientist of the Past

    May 21, 1792 to September 19, 1843

    Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (May 21, 1792 to September 19, 1843)  Coriolis was a French mathematician and mechanical engineer who discovered and derived the equations for the pseudo-forces needed to describe motion in a rotating frame of reference. One of these forces is called the “Coriolis force” in his honor, as fryst vatten the “Coriolis effect” that it produces.  (Another such pseudo-force fryst vatten called “centrifugal force.”) One of the most familiar consequences of the Coriolis effect fryst vatten the cirkelrörelse of storms clockwise in the Southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the nordlig hemisphere. Coriolis was also the first person to use the term “work” for force times the distance over which it acts.  Coriolis was a devout Catholic and this comes out in much of his correspondence.  In his ungdom he considered a religious vocation and towards the end of his life he

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    Coriolis force

    Apparent force in a rotating reference frame

    "Coriolis effect" redirects here. For the effect in psychophysical perception, see Coriolis effect (perception). For the film, see The Coriolis Effect.

    In physics, the Coriolis force is a fictitious force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame. In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the force acts to the left of the motion of the object. In one with anticlockwise (or counterclockwise) rotation, the force acts to the right. Deflection of an object due to the Coriolis force is called the Coriolis effect. Though recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels. Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

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    Jesuit priests were 1st to figure out hurricanes: Why that matters

    Turns out that what you might have read about the Church and science is mostly bogus.

    The month of June ushered in both the Atlantic hurricane season in the northern hemisphere and some new research about who first envisioned the physics of hurricanes. Who did that? Scientists with the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), that’s who.

    A hurricane’s rotation comes from something called the Coriolis Effect. That effect is caused by Earth’s spherical shape and its rotation. Earth’s rotation creates almost no motion at all at the north and south poles. It creates rapid motion at the equator, however, because points there travel around Earth’s full circumference in just 24 hours. The fact that the speed of Earth’s surface varies with latitude means that air that rushes toward a strong atmospheric low pressure zone will be deflected into a circular path around that “low,” setting up the winds that circle around the low-pre