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Do we stand on d same place,say if we r suspended in air? wud we mov with earths rotation?wats the theory?

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Do we stand on d same place,say if we r suspended in air? wud we mov with earths rotation?wats the theory?

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  1. You would move along with the Earth's rotation.  That is because you still have the momentum acquired from initially being in contact with the surface of the Earth.


  2. Newton's second law of motion (I think). A body in motion stays in motion unless subject to an outside force. A hot air balloon on the ground is moving at the same speed the earth is rotating, roughly a thousand miles an hour. When it floats into the sky it is still moving horizontally at 1000 miles an hour (give or take some lateral motion because of the force of the wind). If the earth were to suddenly stop rotating (and not discintegrate due to the enormous force stopping it), the balloon would appear to accelerate twoards the horizon at 1000 miles an hour.

  3. Well, you don't feel the Earth's rotation, mostly because you move with it.  Your momentum carries you.  And the Earth's motion changes due to forces, mostly gravitational, but you feel them to, so again, you move with it.

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