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| Like the spinning ice skater pulling in her arms, |
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| the air will try to rotate faster as it moves in
towards the axis |
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| If the air rotates faster than the planet, as seen
from the planet |
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| the air will appear to drift east. |
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| View of Earth |
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| as seen from |
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| over the N Pole |
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| Someone on the planet who didn’t know about rotation
would think |
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| a mysterious
force was making the air curve to its right. |
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