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Why does earth rotate constantly?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Actually it doesn't - but the changes are quite small. There is a physical law called Conservation of Angular Momentum - the total angular momentum (informally, we might say the "amount of rotation") can't increase or decrease in a closed system. If the distribution of masses on Earth changes, Earth's angular velocity can change - but any redistribution of masses is rather small-scale, compared to the size of the Earth. On the other hand, Earth rotates slower and slower over time - angular momentum is transferred to the Moon in this case.

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11y ago

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