What is the angular velocity of a person standing on the surface of the earth. Give your answer in radians per second

Angle through which the earth rotates = 2pi

Time to do so = 246060 = 86400s

Angular velocity = 7.3x10-5rads-1

WF

Related Physics A Level answers

All answers ▸

What is the difference between internal energy, temperature, and heat?


Explain why excited atoms only emit certain frequencies of radiation after an electron collides with the atom


why does photoelectric emission occur only when there is a certain threshold frequency of incident radiation?


State Lenz's law and hence describe and explain what happens to a magnet travelling through a metal tube