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The vertical component of the effect caused by this force is sometimes named for Eotvos. The ratio of inertial forces to the magnitude of this force is a dimensionless number named for Rossby. This force causes the apparent (*) deflection of objects moving in rotating reference frames. For 10 points, name this fictitious force that causes winds to deflect to the north and south of the equator, which is responsible for the formation of cyclones.
Science

composed a set of works dedicated to Grand Duke Paul of Russia that includes pieces such as "The Birds" and "How Do You Do" and one finale contains various pauses to confuse the audience, titled "The Joke. " One of his works contains the "Ewiger, machtiger Gott" chorus towards the end of its "Spring" movement. Another set of his works are occaisonally named for his collaborator Johann Salomon, including one whose second movement contains an 8-note accompaniment by the bassoons that imitates the ticking of the title device, and another which derives its name from the loud G chord in its sixteenth measure. For 10 points, identify this composer of the Clock and Surprise symphonies.
Fine Arts

His On the Rainbow and On the Calculation of Chances were printed together posthumously. Decades earlier, while living with surgeon Hermann Homan, he penned the Korte Verhandeling and Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione. He made arguments about Old Testament prophets in 1663s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, and in 1662 he finished a geometrical version of Descartess Principia Philosophiae, which influenced his most famous work, subtitled Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata. For 10 points, name this Dutch philosopher of Jewish origin and author of Ethics.

Social Science