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Question about tide

Let's say a canal is built in the middle of Kansas in the shape of a ring that stretches 100 miles in diameter. The band of water is 100 feet wide and 10 feet deep throughout the entire canal, and the ...
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Relationship between angular momentum of Earth and recession rate of the Moon

So the problem goes like this: Two masses $m_1$ and $m_2$ orbit each other with semimajor axis $a$. The orbit is circular, and $m_1 \gg m_2$. The body $m_1$ has a rotational moment of intertia $I_1$ ...