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Suppose Earth's Rotation Were Somewhat Faster Than It Is Now

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Suppose Earth's rotation were somewhat faster than it is now. From the standpoint of a fixed viewer on Earth's surface, wind moving south in the Northern Hemisphere would appear to be deflected to the _______ and it would be deflected to a _______ extent than it is now.


Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of all values in a population dataset.

Chi-Square Statistic

A statistical measure used in tests of independence to analyze the frequency distribution of observed data versus an expected data set.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that there is no significant difference between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.

Sample Data

A subset of data collected from a larger population, used to analyze and make inferences about that population.

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