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The Sun is not solid; it is a ball of highly compressed plasma, which behaves like a little like a liquid. The polar areas of the Sun rotate in about 33 days, while the equatorial areas spin more quickly, in about 28 days.
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What factors would affect the length of the day?
The length of the day would change if either the rotational speed of the the planet or the orbital distance from the sun changed. However, if you mean what factors affect the length of daylight, then that is different.
Slowest spinning planet?
Venus is the slowest planet with a rotational speed of 243 Earth days equaling one Venusian day.
How fast is the Earth moving through space?
The sun is moving through the galaxy at about a half a million miles per hour. Earth orbits the sun at about an eighth of that speed and the Milkyway Galaxy is moving at about a million miles per hour. Earths rotational speed is comparatively irrelevant. (about 1000 miles per hour) So earth is moving between .5 and 1.5 million miles per hour or .2% to .5% of the speed of light
How does gravity effect earths rotation and revolution?
The Earth's rotation on its axis is not directly affected by gravity except that gravity holds Earth together as a sphere.Earth's revolution round the Sun is an "orbit" which obeys the laws of gravity.There is also a slight transfer of the rotational energy of the Sun to Earth's revolution speed. The Sun's spin is slowing and Earth is moving away form the Sun a little. {Note, this effect is far more pronounced between the Earth and the Moon].
Do planets near the sun spin faster or slower than planets away from the sun?
The gas giants, the four planets farthest from the Sun, do spin faster than the inner planets. However, rotational speed has almost nothing to do with the distance a planet is from the sun. Having said that, both the Sun and the Moon are responsible for the tides of the oceans which are still slowing the Earth down ever so slightly. The extremely slow rotation of Venus would have had other causes. The rotational speeds of planets are the product of 4½ billion years of events. The angular momentum of the protostellar disc would have been transferred to growing planets. In the case of the gas giants, the tidal effects at their great distance from the Sun are extremely small compared to their masses. So they are still spinning vigorously. Even Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is not rapidly losing its spin.
How does linear speed change as rotational speed changes?
At any distance from the axis of rotation, the linear speed of an object is directly proportional to the rotational speed. If the linear speed increases, the rotational speed also increases.
What are the units for rotational speed?
the units for rotational speed are radians / sec or degrees / sec
What is the sun rotation speed?
Rotational speed is the propeller slipstream and engine torque all contrive to make the airplane turn left during takeoff.
What is an input speed sensor on a 1999 Chrysler lhs?
It is a sensor on the transmission that reads the rotational speed of the input shaft.It is a sensor on the transmission that reads the rotational speed of the input shaft.
Hard disk has a rotation speed of 7200RPM then the latency time is?
it depends on more then rotational speed. The Rotational speed and latency time is related as follows: Latency time = (1/((Rotational Speed in RPM)/60)) * 0.5 * 1000 milli seconds
What is the relationship between linear speed and rotational speed?
(linear speed) = (rotational speed) x (radius or distance from the center) To use consistent measures, use radians/second for rotational speed, meters for the radius, and meters/second for the linear speed. If you know rotational speed in some other unit - for example, rpm (rotations per minute) - convert to radians per second first.
What is the relationship between rotational speed and linear speed?
(linear speed) = (rotational speed) x (radius or distance from the center) To use consistent measures, use radians/second for rotational speed, meters for the radius, and meters/second for the linear speed. If you know rotational speed in some other unit - for example, rpm (rotations per minute) - convert to radians per second first.
What is Venus's rotational speed?
86km/s
How does the earth move about the sun?
In a rotational pattern.
At a given rotational speed how does linear speed change its distance from the axis changes?
In The Center Of The Rotating Platform Right At Its Axis You Have No Linear Speed At All, But You Do Have Rotational Speed. Your Rotational Speed would Stay The Same But As You Move Away From The Center Your Linear Speed Gets Faster And Faster. If You Move Twice As Much From The Center Your Linear (Tangential) Speed Would Also Be Twice as Much
Rotational speed of earth in day and night is the same?
Yes, they are the same speed.
Which has greater rotational speed the shoulders or the fingertips of a figure skater spinning with her arms held straight out?
Rotational speed (degrees per sec) is the same, linear speed is greater at the finger tips.
