Laboratory Demonstrations of Planetary-Style Fluid Dynamics

UCLA SPINLab Fluid Dynamics Educational Film Project

Laboratory demonstrations of basic physics underlying ocean and atmospheric fluid dynamics. Demonstrations include: Coriolis effect, atmospheric overturn, deflection of easterlies and westerlies, gyroscopic behavior of rapidly rotating fluids, and swirling flows in non-rotating and strongly rotating systems.

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