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  1. A seawater density calculator.

  2. An interactive year 12 physics tutorial on Newton's Laws.
  3. A page on Newton's Laws, acceleration and motion in general.
  4. An advanced unit on the Equation of Motion under Newton's Second Law from Mehrdad Negahban at the University of Nebraska.

  5. A discussion of the Coriolis force by Dave van Domelen of Ohio State University (USA).
  6. A discussion of erroneous concepts about the Coriolis force and how to correct them, by A. S. Fraser of Pennsylvania State University (USA).
  7. A movie demonstration of the Coriolis force (MPEG, suitable for Quicktime) from D. Hebert's movie page, University of Rhode Island, USA.

  8. Movie examples of geostrophic adjustment (MPEG, suitable for Quicktime) from D. Hebert's movie page, University of Rhode Island, USA.

  9. A beautiful laboratory demonstration of the Ekman layer by S. Sakai, I. Iizawa and E. Aramaki of the University of Tokyo (Japanese version)

  10. 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.)