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Lab 1: Solid body rotation: geopotential surfaces, inertial oscillations, and the Foucault pendulum. Pendulum video (39 mb) Table rotation rate: 26.2 RPM Length of the pendulum: 125 cm. (Video codec MPEG-4 required; try downloading VLC media player) (If you'd like to try converting between video formats, check out FFmpeg) Lab 2: Cylinder collapse experiment: thermal wind balance, geostrophic adjustment, vortex stretching/squashing. Cylinder collapse video (47 mb) Lab 3: Taylor columns, vortex propagation on a topographic beta plane. Lab 4: Baroclinic instability in the rotating annulus experiment. Lab 5: Ekman layers and the spin-down of a vortex. |