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### Should the centripetal force of Earth's orbit around the Sun affect a pendulum on Earth?

Lets use approximate earth angular velocity around the sun with $\omega\approx2*10^{-7}\frac{r}{s}$ and earth translation orbit radius with $r\approx1.5*10^{11}m$ we can approximate centripetal ...
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### How the moon takes energy from Earth (if at all)?

At least twice (on the comments of this answer, and mentioned in passing on this book), I have read that the moon takes energy from Earth due to tidal drag. The notion seems that: a) energy must ...
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### What exactly is the energy source of tides?

Tides happen due to the gravitational interactions between the Earth and the Moon. We can say that the tides are pulled by the Moon's gravitational field and so it keeps on changing as it moves out of ...
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### High tide variability [duplicate]

I thought I understood tides but both this page and a cross reference with another site confirms I do not. They say that high tide is 7 hours away and another part of the UK coast (less than a few ...
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### Will extracting power from ocean tides affect the moon's orbit in the LONG run?

Conservation of energy says that any energy extracted from our ocean's tides would have to come from somewhere. Since these tides are a gravitational effect due to the moon, it would seem that the ...
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### How does the sea level reach a fixed height? [closed]

Consider a flat body of water on the Earth. On all tiny elements of water in that body, the buoyant force is equal to the force of gravity due to Earth. Now if I introduce the moon to this body, (or ...
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### Relative size of the 2 tidal bulges

I am interested in making a simplified model that represents only the effect that the moon has on Earths tides. In this model I am going to assume that the earth is completely spherical (with no ...
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### Deriving the expression for the static equilibrium height of liquids under tidal force

I have tried looking at various sources and Wikipedia articles. I also checked some Q&As here at StackExchange but I couldn't quite grasp how the formula for the height of tides is derived when we ...
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### Calculate Height of Ocean Tides if Earth Had a Larger/Smaller Radius

For context, I'm coming at this question from the Worldbuilding stackexchange, where I've posted a related question. I'm not a physicist or scientist by training, so if I make any glaring errors, ...
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### Are the high tides always more unequal when the centre of gravity is within a planet?

In case of our high tides at both sides of the Earth it seems that they are almost equal. But is there a slight difference because the center of gravity is about 1,700 km below the surface of the ...
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### Is this derivation for the development of two opposite two bulges of water due to the circling of two bodies around their CM right?

I tried it this way. Consider two equal spherical masses M, covered with a layer of water, circling around each other at a distance $l$ (measured between their centers). They have radius $R$ and ...
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### Will an object orbiting a non-rotating mass with a layer of water on it cause two bulges of water on opposite sides of it? [duplicate]

Imagine a non-rotating spherical mass with a sea on its surface (somewhat like the earth, except for the rotating part). Around this mass is circling an object with a much smaller mass, but ...
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### If the ground's normal force cancels gravity, how does a person keep rotating with the Earth?

When I am on earth, the weight of my body is countered by the reaction of the ground. So, there is no net force acting on me. But I am spinning with earth. But if there is no centripetal force then ...