Links related to this chapter
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- A seawater density calculator.
- An interactive year 12 physics tutorial on Newton's Laws.
- A page on Newton's Laws, acceleration and motion in general.
- An advanced unit on the Equation of Motion under Newton's Second Law from Mehrdad Negahban at the University of Nebraska.
- A discussion of the Coriolis force by Dave van Domelen of Ohio State University (USA).
- A discussion of erroneous concepts about the Coriolis force and how to correct them, by A. S. Fraser of Pennsylvania State University (USA).
- A movie demonstration of the Coriolis force (MPEG, suitable for Quicktime) from D. Hebert's movie page, University of Rhode Island, USA.
- Movie examples of geostrophic adjustment (MPEG, suitable for Quicktime) from D. Hebert's movie page, University of Rhode Island, USA.
- A beautiful laboratory demonstration of the Ekman layer by S. Sakai, I. Iizawa and E. Aramaki of the University of Tokyo (Japanese version)
- The textbook Introduction to Physical Oceanography by R. Stewart, Texas A&M University, USA, in pdf download format. (This is not strictly a web resource but a book with good web-derived colour illustrations.)