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Question about spinning Earth
The earth spins on its axis at 1674 km/h from west to east. Would it not imply that an airplane flying eastbound at 500 km/h would cover a distance of 500 kilometres in an hour while another plane ...
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Calculating the Velocity of an object far far away
I saw a satellite the other day, it moved very fast through the night sky.
Now I know it took around 110 seconds for it to fully travel out of the night sky(out of my visual bounds assuming, that I'...