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A body is weighed by a spring balance to be 1000N at the north pole. How much will it weight at the equator. Account for rotationof earth only.

Arnab Mandal , 14 Years ago
Grade 11
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Swapnil Saxena

The centrifugal forces will be acting on the particle at the equator but not on the poles (as the poles have  0 angular velocity).

As such the Weight will be reduced by mv2/R and becomes (mg - mv2/R) at the equator, where v is the linear velocity of the earth and R is the radius of the earth

But it remains mg at the poles.

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