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Statement of a problem № 3299

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A train of mass m is travelling with a uniform velocity v along a parallel latitude. Show that the difference between the lateral force on the rails when it travels towards east and when it travels towards west is 4mvw cos L, where L is latitude and w is the angular velocity of the earth.

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