Does the Earth experience air resistance as it moves through space?
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Most of the atmosphere rotates with the earth, but yes, I'm sure inertial effects produce a tiny, tiny amount of friction.  More important are tidal effects of the moon's gravity, which are gradually slowing down the earth's rotation.  In a few billion years the difference in the length of the day will be noticeable.  And there's another kind of "air" resistance -- the solar wind, a continuous (but varying) stream of particles ejected by the sun.  These are mostly charged particles and are deflected by the earth's magnetic field toward the poles, where they produce the auroras (borealis and australis?), the northern and southern lights.
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Acceleration due to gravity (NOT change in acceleration), which could also be described as change in velocity.  That's assuming no air resistance.  If there is air resistance, they will eventually reach terminal velocity after which their velocity will be constant, but this is not implied by "free fall," and given that the question sounds like it's from a basic middle school or high school physics class I'm guessing you're supposed to ignore air resistance.
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Moving air is in a sense a fluid. Air is also a composition of matter (nitrogen, oxygen, etc.). These materials can and do conduct heat. Also heat travels upwards in air. This is because colder air has a different partial pressure.
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The air gets thinner with altitude and with that so does the temperature. \n\nBesides, to say that you're approaching the sun when you've not even left earth's atmosphere is like saying you're approaching New York when you've only checked in your luggage at Heathrow.
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Friction occurs when two objects rub together, and is not dependent on gravity. So there would be friction even in outer space.\n\nProbably you are referring to air friction, which happens when objects move through the air. Since there is no air in outer space, there will be no air friction. That is why a moving spacecraft can turn off its rockets and keep moving forever in outer space (as long as it does not hit something or is pulled by gravity of a planet, moon or star).
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In space, because there is no air resistance or the like, thrust equals acceleration.  Also acording to newton's laws of motion an object in motion stays in that motion unless a force acts on it.  So if a rock is moving through space it will move with constant speed unless gravity or another force pulls or pushes it off course.  If a rocket constantly uses it's thrusters it would constantly accelerate until the force pushing it stoped.  I hope this helps!
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Air resistance has little to do with terminal velocity. In fact the terminal velocity is lower on the moon than on earth, because the attraction of the moon for a body is less. The terminal velocity is equal to the impact velocity that a body would acquire if it fell unimpeded from a great distance away (distant space). That is the initial velocity an outbound object would need to totally escape from the moon or earth. Since the earth is more massive, its escape velocity would be greater, and the presence of air (drag) would be to make escape slightly more difficult from earth.
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Think of the Earth as a big blue marble. Got it? Ok. Now, think of a layer of bubble wrap around the marble. That would be the air we breathe, or the troposhpere. It is air, so it doesn't weigh much, but it does weigh something. Now think of another layer of bubble wrap on top of the first. That would be the stratosphere. Then another layer, which is the mesosphere, and then another layer, the thermosphere. Now you've got four layers of bubble wrap, on top of each other. Each one is PRESSing down on the ones beneath it, causing PRESSURE. Hope that helps.
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It is possible for the earth to hold an atmosphere due to its gravitational field.  All objects (of any size) are attracted to other objects (of any size) this is called gravity.  The earth's gravitational field therefore holds the oxygen, nitrogen, etc. inside its gravitational field because due to its size its gravity pulls the oxygen molecules to it.  This is also reason why there is more oxygen air etc.  at sea level than in the mountains.  As you ascend higher the gravity is less than at sea level so less air is held by gravity.
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Is it within a vacuum?\n\nIf not, and if through your above given conditions resulted in air being compressed or what have you then I guess it would.
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There's no oxygen in space but we all breathe. The sun has enough gravity to keep the oxygen inside it just like Earth but even more so. However this oxygen isn't for burning like we would burn wood. It is part of the cycle of nuclear reactions going on in the sun. The gravity of the sun is large enough to keep the mass of gas concentrated enough to be able to sustain such nuclear reactions.
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Good question! I think no because everything moves within the atmosphere. Such as 8 hour long airplanes. If they travel the opposite direction of the earth's rotation, it wouldn't just stay still over the same exact spot over the ocean if it traveled 1000mph. good question, but that's what i predict using prior knowledge. Plus, i think it's gravitational force that makes every object move at the same time along with the earth itself. It may have to do with Earth's magnetic field, i don't know.
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You have confused.space air will not touch the earth.
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Air has pressure, much like any gas.  By using this pressure it fills in cracks and crevices.
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no....\n\nit wont need fuel..... it is moving in the space only through the gravitional force...
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You may be right.  The force that they respond to is gravity.  Cold air, being denser, will, in a fluid medium, be drawn closer to the earth, displacing warmer, less dense air.
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Put simply, the earth spins from west to east so there is a drag of air (and water) from east to west as it partly resists the earth's motion.\n\nThis effect is most pronounced at the equator which is spinning fastest. Hence there are strong ocean and wind currents from east to west along the equator. The trade winds are sucked into the wake or tail of this from the north and the south. So in the northern hemisphere they are northeast to southwest, in the southern hemispere they are southeast to northwest.