Consider an air-borne humanitarian mission, where food packages where dropped
with zero initial speed, from a helicopter hovering a height of h above the Earth
surface. Treating the package as particle of mass m, derive the horizontal deflection
from the particle caused by the Coriolis force acting on a particle falling freely in Earth’s
gravity field.
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Expert's answer
2019-12-02T09:53:34-0500
The Coriolis force is much smaller in magnitude that the force of gravity.
In this case, Ώ is a small parameter.
We can writer
z=h−2g×t×t(1)
The particle hits the ground when
t=g2h(2)
The net eastward deflection of the particle as strikes the ground is
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