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Can we move without moving? [duplicate]

So here is the question, If I jump and hover over the ground for sometime why don't we move away from the point I jumped from? Because earth is rotating so if I hover long enough we should move from ...
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Explain the relative motion between two particles of a rotating rigid body

A rigid body is defined as a collection of particles in which distance between each pair of particles remains constant. I was taught that the motion of any one particle of the rigid body with respect ...
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Centrifugal force in inertial systems

My textbook gives an example: There are two systems, $O$ is inertial and $O'$ non inertial. $O'$ is rotating whit $\omega=\mathrm{constant}$ and $O=O'$. We assume that a disc is rotating whit the ...
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Velocity as viewed from space

I got a problem which asks if the speed of a car in Oslo is 50km/hr what will be its speed when viewed from space. I have the relation between the velocities as observed from inertial and non-...
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Simple Rotating frame of reference

I have a car moving in straight line with certain time-varying acceleration and there is another car moving in a curvilinear way along some curved path with some time-varying acceleration. The ...
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