Rotating room

Rotating room

A square-shaped room with a side of about 3-4 m with opaque walls. The visitors go in and then the room starts rotating (fast enough to observe the non-inerciality of the system, but slow enough to push the visitors to the wall). In the middle of the room there is a basket with balls, and targets are fixed to the walls. The visitors try to hit the targets, which is not possible due to the rotation of the room and they find out that they need to throw askew. Furthermore, the visitors can throw the balls at each other. In the room there is one or several cameras (one of them must scan the room from above) scanning the space and the image is projected outside for the amusement of others who are not inside.

Goal
To experience the Coriolis force on one’s own.

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