If an artillery shell is fired a short distance from a point on earth's surface at latitude \(\lambda\), with speed \(v_{0}\) and an angle of inclination \(\alpha\) to the horizontal, show that (pretending there is no air resistance) its lateral deflection when it strikes the ground is

where \(\omega\) is the earth's angular velocity.

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d=(4v/g)w sin (sin a cos a),