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    Earth's Angular Velocity and Various Object Launching

    Go stand on the north or south pole. You will be rotating about your own center of mass and have zero translational speed relative to the center of the planet. Now take a stroll down to the equator. Once you get there, you'll be traveling at some ~500m/s relative to the center of the Earth...
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    Where Does Electromagnetic Energy Go?

    It gets absorbed by objects in the room. The energy goes from electromagnetic waves to being stored in the jiggling of atoms.
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