I never understood the call Coriollis force, I thought that physicists were getting me fingers to his mouth with his elaborate explanation. But like everything else, this can be seen as an elementary geometric result of Newton's law.
This article (download here ) is an interesting presentation on Foucault's pendulum, which uses spherical coordinates and the basic notion of holonomy, and it really clear how the phenomenon depends on the position. The article is very interesting, can be read with arithmetic and is a gateway to the beautiful world of differential geometry.
Please if your exposure is on the Foucault pendulum, be sure to read this article. If you understood the phenomenon as satisfatoria using another source, as I am eager to listen.
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