Answer:1. If the Earth is rotating, you, by standing on the Earth's surface, must be moving through space.Assume you live at the equator of the Earth. How fast are you moving through space if Earth rotates? (Your final answer may be in either miles/sec or km/sec.)
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For this problem, ignore the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun (and the Sun's orbital motion in the galaxy and the galaxies motion relative to other galaxies, etc.) We assume the Earth is a sphere and we live at the equator. As the Earth spins we are carried with the surface of the Earth in a big circle. The circle is the circumference of the Earth. The velocity is the distance traveled divided by the time needed to travel that distance.
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Answer:1. If the Earth is rotating, you, by standing on the Earth's surface, must be moving through space.Assume you live at the equator of the Earth. How fast are you moving through space if Earth rotates? (Your final answer may be in either miles/sec or km/sec.)
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For this problem, ignore the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun (and the Sun's orbital motion in the galaxy and the galaxies motion relative to other galaxies, etc.) We assume the Earth is a sphere and we live at the equator. As the Earth spins we are carried with the surface of the Earth in a big circle. The circle is the circumference of the Earth. The velocity is the distance traveled divided by the time needed to travel that distance.