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The earth rotates once per day about its axis. where would you have to stand in order to have the smallest tangential speed?

The earth rotates once per day about its axis. where would you have to stand in order to have the smallest tangential speed?
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The earth rotates once per day about its axis. where would you have to stand in order to have the smallest tangential speed?

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The earth as a whole rotates with a fixed angular velocity. Therefore, you need to be at the rotation axis to have the smallest tangential speed. This would be at the north or south pole.
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