How many components of velocity does the earth have when its spinning around the Sun?
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Generally speaking 6: 3 linear velocity components and 3 angular velocity componenets.  How many of these are zero depends on your coordinate system.
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The easiest answer I can give you is assuming you mean that our rotational velocity (radians per second) goes to 0 instantaniously. Being that the world is rotating 360 degrees (2pi radians) every 24 hours (86400 seconds), we are turning 2pi radians per 86400 seconds or .0000727 radians per second. Assuming you are close to the equator, you will be launched (well perspectively you will continue moving at normal speed as the Earth abruptly stops) forward at approximately 1037.6 miles per hour, being that the earth rotates 15 degrees per hour at 69.7 miles per degree.
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Let's just talk about Earth. The earth's diameter is 12756 km. Its circumference is pi x 12756 = 40074 km. The earth spins 1 round in 24 hours. That's 1700 km/h, or 472 m/s. If it rotates in an OPPOSITE direction, it's like the Earth is rotating at 944 km/s and suddenly stops. What happens? You fly through the air at 944 km/s. All the houses fly through the air at 944 km/s. Whole forests fly at 944 km/s. Even whole mountain ranges and mountain tips fly at 944 km/s. The ocean's waters fly backward at 944 km/s. Talk about a uber tsunami. I don't know what the friction of air against these object would do to them. Can anyone solve that? Even the Earth's crust might become detached with its outer mantle, I think. Lava breaks out everywhere, global earthquakes... In short: All hell breaks loose. Man, that's even worse than the Death Star. Superman actually does that to Earth in one of his movies. He's a major nut!
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Angular velocity (w) of earth is:\n\nw=2*pi radians / 24 hours  \n\nconvert this so it is in terms of seconds for compatability with SI units.\n\nw=2*pi/ 24 hours * 24 hours/ 86400seconds \n\nw=7.2722E-5 rads/s\n\nThe lateral acceleration due to the angular velocity must be exactly eaqual to acceleration do to gravity to maintain orbit.\n\nLateral acelleration due to velocity is:\na= (V^2) / r \n\nRelate velocity and angular velocity with:\nV= w*r\n\nSubstituting for V inthe first equation gives:\n\na = w^2 * r \n\n(this is the lateral acceleration towards earth's center due to the angular velocity)\n\nNext we need the acceleration toward earth's center due to gravity.\n\na = G * Mass of Earth / r^2\n\nSince both equations have 'a' on the left side we know they are equal, so we now have\n\nw^2 * r = G * Mass of Earth / r^2\n\nNow Solvling for 'r'\n\nr=[ G * Mass of Earth / w^2 ]^(1/3)\n\nPlug-in known quantities\nG=6.67E-11 \nMass of Earth = 5.9742E24\nw=7.2722E-5\n\nr=4.224E7 m\n\nTo get the hieght above earth's surface we subtract the radius of Earth.\n\nh = 4.224E7 m - 6378100 m = 3.586E7 m\n\nh = 35,586 km
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The Earth spins from west to east at about 900 mph. Looking from above the Earth's North Pole, the Earth rotates counter-clockwise around the Sun.
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We orbit the sun, and the earth rotates. Have the children walk around you while spinning them selves. They can't always see you. The moon rotates around the earth and the sun. so have another child walk around the spinning child. The 'earth' child will see the 'moon' child more than you.
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If I understand your question, Earth's velocity around the Sun changes as its distance from the Sun changes; we are farthest from the Sun during summer (northern hemisphere "summer")and our orbital velocity is at its lowest. When our orbit takes us in closer to the Sun in winter, our velocity increases. Kepler determined the principles behind this relationship hundreds of years ago.
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The Earth rotates on its axis at 1000 miles per hour (1600 kph). It orbits around the Sun at an average speed of around 67,250 miles per hour (107,600 kph). The Sun, in turn, is orbiting around the centre of the galaxy at a speed of 540,000 miles per hour. So the combined speed through space of the Earth and the Sun is 607,250 miles per hour. But there´s more - our Galaxy is also hurtling through space at a speed of 360,000 miles per hour. The combined motion of the Earth, Sun and Galaxy means that we are about twenty three and a quarter million miles away from where we were in space this time yesterday.\n\n  The Solar Sytem is believed to be about 4.5 billion years old but it's constituent parts were undoubtedly moving even before that. It is predicted\nthat our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in, roughly, 5 billion years.
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We can see the sun rise and set, and it would be impossible for the sun to revolve around the earth because of the huge difference in math, so the only explanation is that the earth is spinning.\n\nIn reply to the first two replys, the sun is not the center of the universe, it is the center of the solar system. Also, because of the sun's gravity, we REVOLVE, but that has nothing to do with rotation. MOMENTUM is what causes us to not feel the spin/movement, not inertia.
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Since the Sun is made of gas, different parts of it rotate at different speeds. Near the Sun's equator, it completes one rotation every 27 Earth days. But near the poles, it's about 31 Earth days. This is called "differential rotation". \n\nHope thats clear??
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The air around the planet is a viscous fluid and will travel with the rotation of the earth.  This does not take into accounts things such as wind currents or the jet stream which are different things.  There is a little bit of lag in the higher altitudes but its negligible
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Hi Keenan!  Im Matt, an astronomy wizz.  If you look at most astronomy questions where I am, my answers are usually always the best of the best thanks to my power source, Blue Moons to Black holes By Melton Knocke.\n\nAnyway your question:\n\nEarth is moving fast, despite what people think.  It spins at about 1000 miles per hour, and goes 67 miles per hour around the sun.  You'd think that you would feel the spinning right?  WRONG!!!!  Sorry, cant help it.  Its so fun.  ANyway, the reason: All of the motions are almost completely constant. \n\nDon't get it?  Ever ride a train?  If you haven't, you can surely picture it as a car if you wish.  Notice how you feel abolutly no motion pretty much unless you speed up, slow down, or hit a bump?  Thats the same reason the earth never can be felt.  Its always going at a constant speed, never slowing unless it actually is hit with something dangerous enough to wipe out the human race.  \n\nThere is also another way in which we could indirectly feel the Earth's spin. Above we said that the Earth spinning is an example of almost constant motion. The reason we said "almost" is that the Earth's spin carries us around in a circle, not in a straight line. It's a very big circle, and it takes a long time to go around, but qualitatively it is the same thing that happens on a spinning amusement park ride, where it feels like you're being flung outward as the ride spins around. The spinning Earth is flinging us away from its surface a tiny bit, so that we weigh a little less than we would otherwise, simply because we are not being held down to the surface as tightly. \n\nAnyway, my answer is yours truly.  Enjoy!  Have fun.
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Because it's not a solid body, different areas of the Sun rotate at different speeds.\n\nEQUATOR - 25 days per revolution\nPOLES   - 36 days per revolution\n30-degrees above/below equator - 28 days
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There is rotation-the spinning of Earth on its axis\nAnd:\nThere is revolution-The orbiting of Earth around the sun
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1,038 mph at the equator\n\n66,600+ mph around the sun\n\n486,000 mph around the center of the Milky Way galaxy\n\n1,332,000 mph through the universe\n\nSpeed is a relative matter depending upon your perspective!
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Well the earth orbit's the sun \n2AU * PI / year\n\nAn AU is the average distance of the Earth from the sun in it's orbit.  Although all orbit's are ellipses, the equation of a circle should approximate close enough.\n\n1AU =149.598×10^6 km.\n2AU = 299196000 km \n\nThe earth moves really fast so we should convert years into seconds.  The earth orbits the sun once about every 365.25 days (the .25 is why we have leap years).\n\n365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 31557600 seconds.\n\nSo now all we must figure out to get the speed in km/sec we calculate \n(299196000 * PI) / 31557600\n=29.785280109497\n\nSo the Earth orbits the sun at a speed of 29.785280109497 km/sec.  That's pretty fast!\n\nWikipedia gives a max orbital speed of 29.783 km/sec and a min orbital speed of 29.291 km/sec, so my estimate was pretty darn close.
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The earth moves around the sun at a mean distance of 93,000,000 miles.\nAnother point of interest, the earth is more than 4500 million years old.