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A projectile is fired horizontally along the earth's surface. Show that to a first approximation the angular deviation from the direction of fire resulting from the Coriolis force varies linearly with time at a rate of cos wq, where q is the angular frequency of the Earth's rotation and is the latitude angle, the direction of deviation being to the right in the northern hemisphere.

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