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In physics, the Coriolis effect is the apparent deflection of a freely moving object as observed from a rotating frame of reference. The effect can be accounted for in the rotating frame by the introduction of the fictitious Coriolis force which then balances the the equations of the apparent motion. The effect is named after Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, a French scientist, who discussed it in 1835, though the mathematics appeared in the tidal equations of Laplace in 1778.
One example of the Coriolis effect is mid-latitude cyclones.