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Who was Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis and what did he discover?

April 26, 2017coriolis discover

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Who was Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis and what did he discover?

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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792-1843) was a French scientist who not only discovered the Coriolis force that bears his name, but also introduced the concepts of “work” and “kinetic energy” to physics. He also tried to popularize a new word he coined, “dynamode,” which he defined as 1,000 kilogram-meters of work (in other words