Homework Help: physics

Posted by Baba on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 7:21pm.

How fast would the Earth have to spin to have the person at 24.1° northern geographical latitude float apparently weightlessly across the room? Use REarth = 6,375 km for the radius of Earth.

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physics - bobpursley, Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 7:25pm
you need v^2/reCosLatitude = g

where v= 2PI (re*cosLatitude)/dayinseconds

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