Why We Are Glued to Earth Surface

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Written by: Parvesh Kumar Sharawat Why we are glued to earth surface Dear readers, we all know the concept of gravitational force and the concept of forces generated due molten core and magnetic pull generated by virtue of revolving earth. But, there is another dimension too, to the reason why we all are held to the surface of earth. My thought process started on one sunny day in winter, when I was driving from Shimla to New Delhi on a leisure trip. While driving, I observed a road sign showing speed limit of 50 kmph for cars. A thought struck in my mind all of a sudden! Earth completes its one revolution along its axis in 24 hours, and dividing the circumference of earth by 24 hours we get the speed of 1666 kmph. This leads to the fact that we are continuously moving at the speed of 1,666 kmph approximately! And we also know that earth revolves around the sun and complete its one circle in 365 day approximately. Again dividing the same by orbit length we get speed of 108,000 kmph. The centrifugal principal implies --- When an object rotates it generates centrifugal force, it draws the rotating body away from the center of rotation. But owing to this, that too such high speed of Earth’s rotation, don’t we humans too be pushed out from its surface? But it is not the case. There can be some reasons behind, why are we don’t fall out of Earth’s surface. First, earth’s rotational speed of 1666 kmph pushes objects on its surface away from the center. Second 108,000 kmph orbital speed pushes earth out from its orbit. So, there should be very good synchronization between the rotational and revolutionary speeds. Let’s assume a person name Z standing at any point on the surface of the earth. Z is being pushed away from the core due to centrifugal force generated by earth’s rotation; but by virtue of good synchronization between the two speeds, Z happens to

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