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Fooling Tourists with the Coriolis Effect at Uganda Equator

24/04/201828/04/2018 Pepijn 9 Comments

On places where you can cross the equator, you can find people demonstrating the Coriolis effect for tourists. These performances are actually tricked as the effect is too small to be observed in this way. One guy in Uganda tricks the tourists in another way, but it is unclear whether he realises this himself.

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