Questions tagged [earth]
Earth is the planet on which we live, the 3rd planet from the Sun. Questions using this tag should be about Earth the planet and not Earth-like planets nor earth, as in dirt or soil.
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Coriolis effect and Cyclones
The Coriolis force predicts that winds in the northern hemisphere should be deflected in a clockwise pattern and winds in the southern hemisphere should be deflected in an anti-clockwise pattern. Why ...
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Force of Gravity on earth
If you were to remove all the water from the Mariana trench would you experience more g's at the bottom of the Mariana trench or at the top of mount Everest?
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Why doesn't water accumulate at the Equator under the influence of the centrifugal force of the Earth's rotation?
During the rotation of the Earth, a centrifugal force is formed, according to the actions of which ocean water should be collected at the Equator, forming a "hump" hundreds of meters high.
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Can the four Seasons of planet Earth be defined in terms of Energy? [closed]
Can the four Seasons of planet Earth be defined in terms of Energy?
The definition of Energy gotten from Google is:
ability to do work, which is the ability to exert a force causing displacement of ...
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Has anyone experimented with simulating moon lighting?
Has anyone (in general) experimented with simulating moon lighting?
It means the following. A gray ball is illuminated with light with a brightness equal to that of the sun.
And at the corresponding ...
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Is Earth's magnetic moment vector oriented parallel or antiparallel to the sun's magnetic moment?
Just curious how these two magnets are spatially related to?
And in case there is no any special preferred particular orientation, what is anyway their spatial orientation relation (relative angles)? ...
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What earthbound experiments show gravitation is general to all matter, and not just towards the earth?
I was debating a flat earther and predictably it turned into a debate on gravitation. He said as far as we know, things fall down to the earth, not because its towards the greatest mass. The ...
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How it feels walking to the end of flat earth? [duplicate]
I have seen a video on YouTube on channel Vsauce about the flat earth belief.
There he claims that walking to the edges of this flat earth would be difficult. Something like going up an acclivity.
Is ...
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Air pressure at ground level at the equator and the poles
At the equator at sea level you are about 17 miles higher up than at the poles ie 17 miles further from the center of the earth. Yet the air is not the same as it would be 17 miles up at a higher ...
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Why can't we feel Earth's acceleration? [duplicate]
The centripetal force on Earth is constantly exposing Earth to the acceleration. Why can't we feel this change of direction?
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Is $F=mg$ derived from Newton's law of universal gravitation $F=Gm_1m_2/r^2$?
If so, that means gravity is only 9.8 m/s^2 at the surface of the earth?
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Does the earth exert centrifugal force on us in air? [closed]
Whether the centrifugal force exerted by earth due to rotation be felt or even applied to us if we were in air ? The landmass rotates with earth so it is exerted on us radially outwards , but that isn'...
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What if you ejected a cone of material from the Earth out into space?
For calculation purposes, let's say it's a cone with cone angle (at Earth's center) of 30 degrees, that extends down to the outer surface of Earth's solid inner core, and the entire mass is ejected ...
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Which parts of the electromagnetic spectrum cannot be used for remote sensing of the Earth system and why? Is that different on the moon? Why?
Which parts of the electromagnetic spectrum cannot be used for remote sensing of the Earth system and why? Is that different on the moon and if yes, why?
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Distribution of Earth's mass and its role in the nodal precession of satellites?
From what I have read and understood so far, the nodal precession of a satellite in low Earth orbit is caused by the bulge equatorial of the Earth (caused by its rotation on itself) which moves the ...
