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by thaumasiotes 3634 days ago
From what I read on Wikipedia:

- The Coriolis force is a different effect than the centrifugal force.

- The Coriolis force is unrelated to the radius of the rotating object. This is not true of centrifugal force, so while it doesn't make sense to talk about Coriolis forces resulting from spinning "something too small", it does make sense to talk about them from spinning "something too small" subject to the constraint that the apparent gravity from the centrifugal force meets some threshold such as g.

- The Coriolis force is a tidal effect, inasmuch as it is described by the tidal equations of Laplace ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_tides#Laplace.27s_ti... ). That would make it an example of the tidal constraint that I originally suggested.

Have I made a mistake somewhere? The third point seems kind of shaky.