• Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Not quite. When you’re rotating, you are constantly accelerating in a tangent direction to the diameter. So the poster is right that we should be feeling a force shooting us away from the center of earth.

    Except the force of gravity cancels out the centripetal force and then some.

    So [force of gravity] - [centripetal force of Earth’s rotation] = 9.8m/s^2