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What is an imaginary straight line around which an object such as earth rotates?
That would be the axis.
What is unique about how the Sun rotates around its axis?
It is affected by differential rotation. The Sun is not solid and it rotates faster at its equator than at its poles.
What degrees does the moon rotate on its own axis?
By definition, every object rotates a full 360 degrees about it's own axis, including the moon.
The earth rotates on what is called?
The Earth rotates on an invisable axis.
How does the Foucault pendulum prove the earth rotates?
* it holds hanging objects that pivots around fixed points
Why is a flywheel called a flywheel?
Because it is a wheel which flies or rotates about a fixed axis.
What is axis in sciece terms?
An imaginary line around which an object rotates.
What is an imaginary straight line around which an object such as earth rotates?
That would be the axis.
What is the defenetion of axis?
An axis can be defined as an imaginary line about which a body rotates, In math it can be defined as a fixed reference line for the measurement of coordinates.
What a planet rotates on?
It rotates on its axis.
What is unique about how the Sun rotates around its axis?
It is affected by differential rotation. The Sun is not solid and it rotates faster at its equator than at its poles.
A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate?
AXIS is the straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate..
Why earth is rotating at its own axis?
Any object that rotates has a tendency to continue rotating.
Is an axis one full orbit of an object around another object?
No, an axis is the line between the north pole and the south pole that the planet rotates about in its daily rotation.
How do you define the word rotation?
A rotation is a movement of an object in a circular motion. A two-dimensional object rotates around a center (or point) of rotation. A three-dimensional object rotates around a line called an axis.
How does earth rotates on its axis?
How does the earth rotate on its axis??it rotates on
What is the relationship of the earth's movement to the the sun?
The Earth rotates about on a fixed plane that is respect to its vertical axis around the sun.
