@TheComebackKid
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@Prokofievian would like to share with you. Please positively let me know if you have no desire to engage in this spirited discussion.
Prokofievian just wants to take a moment to discuss with the apparent centrifugal force due to the earth's rotation. In point of fact, it was Christiaan Huygens, a local celebrity whose namesake is everywhere in south holland, who first mathematically described this force. Anywho, according to Newton's second law, we have
F = m a
Because the direction of a body on the earth's surface is constantly changing, it's this accelerate that should cause the apparent force. Taking the second derivative of that object's vector position relative to the axis of rotation, we get that the acceleration due to the rotation is - w^2 r, where w is the angular frequency of rotation, in this case 2*pi / 86400 s.
Keeping things in the plane, an object on the equator would then have an apparently centrifugal acceleration outward of
-w^2 r = -(2*pi/86400)^2 6.371*10^6 = 0.03369 m/s^2. That's at the equator. At the north pole, for instance,Prokofievian believes he would experience no acceleration and thus no force. Since this apparent force is acting outwards, I should appear to be lighter at the equator than he does at the poles. But by how much, and can his cucked globo judeobolshevik weltanschauung survive this calculation?
F_pole = 0
F_equator = 80kg * 0.03369 m/s^2 = 2.69 N
In order to convert this into a gravitational weight we can figure out what kind of mass would experience this force from a gravitational acceleration.
2.69 N / 9.82 m/s^2 = 273 grams.
So, by teleporting from the north pole to the equator, the apparent centrifugal force experienced would be like instantly becoming 273 grams lighter. For reference purposes, this would be like taking off a shirt.
Naturally, Prokofievian says, this all assumes a perfectly spherical earth when in fact the earth is an oblate spheroid, but he thinks it's quite fun to actually work the math out and see that our globe model really does describe reality, don't you think?
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