600burger Messages 63 Reaction score 0 Thread starter Oct 10, 2006 #1 Using normal and tangential coord the the tangential acceleration of any point on Earth is 0, correct?
Using normal and tangential coord the the tangential acceleration of any point on Earth is 0, correct?
Mindscrape Messages 1,854 Reaction score 1 Oct 10, 2006 #2 Normal and tengential, coord? I don't quite know what you mean by that, but you are right that since the Earth spins with a constant velocity, there will be no tangential acceleration.
Normal and tengential, coord? I don't quite know what you mean by that, but you are right that since the Earth spins with a constant velocity, there will be no tangential acceleration.