Chronology | Current Month | Current Thread | Current Date |
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] | [Date Index] [Thread Index] | [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] | [Date Prev] [Date Next] |
This morning I was surfing about and came across the following taken froma
lecture note page. I am not comfortable with this wording. Comments???provided
To understand the tide-generating force you need to understand centripetal
force. Centripetal force that keeps the Earth-moon system together is
by gravity.
All particles of the Earth follow circles of equal radius as they rotatein the
Earth-moon system.
The centripetal force required to keep each particle in an identical orbitis the
same and is directed toward the center of the orbit.