Tbh i dont fully understand the Coriolis Effect either, i only understand that it makes wind blow in different directions depending on your latitude but i dont know why.
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The world is roughly a sphere that’s rotating; visualise a globe spinning on its axis. Now imagine what would happen if something on the earth’s surface started to go in a straight line, rather than being stuck to the surface. The difference in the straight versus the circular path is what causes the Coriolis effect, both for bullets and for the air.
The nearer you are to the poles, the more the effect causes bullets to drift to the right (in the Northern Hemisphere) or to the left (in the Southern Hemisphere); there’s no such effect at the equator. The nearer you are to the equator, the more eastbound bullets drift up and westbound bullets drift down; there’s no such effect at to poles.
The Coriolis effect is a big contributor to the way the winds blow, and winds obviously affect bullets in flight, but this indirect effect is not what people mean when they talk about Coriolis and ballistics.
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