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Calculate the net accleration at the equator?
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05-06-2008
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Calculate the net accleration at the equator?
Earth is commonly thought of as a sphere, but this is not true. Because of Earht's spin, it closely resembles an oblate spheriod, which is just fancy name for "shaped like a squashed orange." The effect of this spin is a tidal bulge that forms at the equator so that the equator so that the equatorial radius of Earth is about 21 km greater than the polar radius of 6370 km. The mass of Earth is 5.979 x 10 to the power of 24 kg. Calculate the net acceleration at the equator.
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