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How would you experimentally determine the angular velocity of the earth?

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Question ajoutée par Amal Brahmi , Primary teacher , Ajyal Alghad
Date de publication: 2014/04/29
Fawzi Abusalma
par Fawzi Abusalma , Physics Tutor , Independent Teacher

coriolis force, a long pendulum in a vacume or by choosing a star to observe and wait until it's at the zenith and then waiting for the next night until it's at the zenith again then dividing2*pi (which is a full revolution) by time.

2*pi/ t             pi is3.1415......        t is the time, which is almost24 hours.

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