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Because of the friction between the water in oceans with the earth's surface, the rotational kinetic energy of the earth is continuously decreasing. If the earth's angular speed decreases by 0.0016 rad/day in 100 years, find the average torque of the friction on the earth. Radius of the earth is 6400 km and its mass is 6.0 ×1024kg.

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Solution

The earth's angular speed decreases by 0.0016 rad/day in 100 years.

Therefore, the torque produced by the ocean water in decreasing earth's angular velocity

τ=Iα=25mr2×(ωω0)t

=25×6×1024×642×1010

×{0.0016864002×100×365}

[1 year = 365 days = 365 × 86400 sec] = 5.678 ×10^{20}N-m


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