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Calculate Earth angular speed [closed]
How may I calculate Earth's angular speed at specific point (The green dot for example)?
Note: I know that angular speed $= \dfrac{2\pi}{T}$ But how may I found $T$ in this case?
I found too that $R_{\...
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How much effort would be required to fix the Earth's rotation?
Given that the earth's rotation has been slowing down by very slight amounts over time, forcing us to introduce leap seconds and so forth into our clocks and calendars, I would like to ask if this ...
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How much energy is necessary to set a year to exactly 360 days
How much energy would be necessary to slow down Earth rotation such that a year was 360 days long?
In the same spirit: how much energy would be necessary to make the Earth rotate faster around the ...
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