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English: Illustration for Coriolis effect article.

Elliptical orbit in the presence of a centripetal force that is proportional to the distance to the center of rotation.
The parametric equation is as follows:

This can also be written as follows, showing that the elliptical motion with that particular velocity profile can be seen as a vector addition of two uniform circular motions:

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