A major attraction in Entebbe, Uganda, is to watch water drain from a bucket on both...

A major attraction in Entebbe, Uganda, is to watch water drain from a bucket on both sides of the equator and observing which direction the water spins.

a) Estimate the Rossby number for the flowing water in the bucket. Does the Coriolis force have enough strength to influence the direction of the draining bucket?

b) For the flow to be influenced by the Coriolis force, estimate how slow the water would be spinning.

c) If this experiment was done at the North Pole instead of the equator, would it be the same? If not, hat would be different and why?

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Rossby number for a bucket experiment depends upon the dimension of bucket and velocity of flow. rossby no. for a bucket is roughly very low nearly 0.0001 radian per second which means to see

genius_generous answered 1 year ago

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