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Homework Statement
(a) What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of an object on Earth's equator owing to the rotation of Earth? (b) What would the period of rotation of Earth (in minutes) have to be for objects on the equator to have a centripetal acceleration with a magnitude of 9.80 m/s2?
Homework Equations
a=v squared/r and T=(2(pi)(r))/v
The Attempt at a Solution
How do I find out the radius of the Earth? Let alone the velocity of the Earth? I think if I knew those two that maybe I could solve this problem.