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Earth turns on its axis about once every 24 hours. The Earth's equatorial radius is 6.38 x 106 m. If the Earth were to suddenly stop spinning about its axis, with what speed would Earth's inhabitants who live at the equator initially "fly away" from their surroundings?

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          Earth turns on its axis about once every 24 hours. The Earth's equatorial radius is 6.38 x 106 m. 

If the Earth were to suddenly stop spinning about its axis, with what speed would Earth's inhabitants who live at the equator initially "fly away" from their surroundings?

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University Physics with Modern Physics

Hugh D. Young 14th Edition

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Solved by Expert Ronald Prasad

05/13/2023

Step 1

First, we need to find the angular speed of Earth's rotation. Since Earth rotates once every 24 hours, we can convert this to radians per second: (2π radians) / (24 hours × 3600 seconds/hour) ≈ 7.27 × 10⁻⁵ radians/second Show more…

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Earth turns on its axis about once every 24 hours. The Earth's equatorial radius is 6.38 x 106 m. If the Earth were to suddenly stop spinning about its axis, with what speed would Earth's inhabitants who live at the equator initially "fly away" from their surroundings?