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Would it matter if the Earth rotated clockwise?
In the Futurama episode "That Darn Katz!" they save the world by rotating the Earth backwards saying it shouldn't matter (which direction Earth rotates). If Earth rotated clockwise and remained in ...
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Is all angular momentum quantized?
Angular momentum is definitely quantized in elementary particles and electrons in atoms.
Molecules also have characteristic rotation spectra.
Is it true that all angular momentum is quantized, ...
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Two axes for rotational motion
I understand that angular momentum is a vector, etc..
But, what really happens when some object, say a ball for example, is set to rotate along two axes? What would the resulting motion look like?
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Doubt concerning centripetal acceleration
What is the centripetal acceleration and angular velocity of a child located 8.2 m
the center of a carousel? The speed (size of the tangential velocity) of the child is
2.1 m / s
A train moves in a ...
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Does the rotation of the earth dramatically affect airplane flight time?
Say I'm flying from Sydney, to Los Angeles (S2LA), back to Sydney (LA2S).
During S2LA, travelling with the rotation of the earth, would the flight time be longer than LA2S on account of Los Angeles ...
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Earth is rotating [duplicate]
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Why does the atmosphere rotate along with the earth?
If i take off from land on a helicopter straight above the earth surface to a certain height and stay there for few ...
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Argument for proving Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed (ECEF) reference frame is non-inertial
Today I heard an argument to prove that the Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed (ECEF) reference frame is non-inertial. It seriously doesn't make any sense to me but I also heard that same argument was made by ...
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Proof that the Earth rotates?
What is the proof, without leaving the Earth, and involving only basic physics, that the earth rotates around its axis?
By basic physics I mean the physics that the early physicists must've used to ...
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Does the sun rotate?
As implied from the question, does the sun rotate? If so, do other stars not including the sun also rotate? Would there be any consequences if the sun and other stars didn't rotate? Me and my friends ...
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Equivalent Rotation using Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff relation
Is there a way in which one can use the BCH relation to find the equivalent angle and the axis for two rotations? I am aware that one can do it in a precise way using Euler Angles but I was wondering ...
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Does being suspended in air allow you to not be affected by Earth's rotation?
Let's assume that there was some mechanism by which we could remain suspended in air. By this I mean that our feet is not in contact with the ground. One possible way of doing this would be by means ...
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Why does each celestial object spin on its own axis?
AFAIK all the celestial objects have a spin motion around its axis. What is the reason for this? If it must rotate by some theory, what decides it's direction and speed of rotation?
Is there any ...
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Why does the wheel of a car appear to be moving in opposite direction?
When a car is about to stop, the speed of its wheel reduces. Why do we see or feel that the wheel of the car is moving in the opposite direction? This can also be observed of a fan at home. So why ...
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Pauli matrix rotations
When doing physics with two-level systems and introducing rotations, a term that appears quite often is the rotation of a pauli matrix by another one:
$e^{- i \sigma_i \theta/2} \sigma_k e^{i ...
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Does Earth's Rotation Affect Its Shape?
The question I am working on is, "Consider the following.
(a) Find the angular speed of Earth's rotation about its axis. rad/s
(b) How does this rotation affect the shape of Earth?"
I am fully ...
