Does the world spin really fast or really slow?
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Both.
The Earth is about 25,000 miles in circumference, and it rotates in about 24 hours, so it's moving at a bit over 1,000 mph. But that's only at the equator. As you move farther north or south, the rotation is slower. At the poles, it's spinning at 0 mph, or close enough to make no difference.
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Really fast!
is this a trick question?! if it spun slowly we would all fall off!
to the above ^^^^ it spins fast? wth i thought it went slow
if my arithmatic is right it spins at about 1500 miles an hour
fast and the world is so big compared to us that we don't feel or see it
it goes really fast-it has to orbit the sun in a year n thats not a lot of time considering the sun is really big
It spins very fast relative to speeds we are used to - think of the size of the earth and the fact it revolves completely in 1 day! Relative to the speed of some other objects in the universe it might be considered slow.
It probably takes all day just to spin around once.
about 900MPH
Work it out, the Earth is about 24000 miles in diameter, spins once every 24 hours, 24 hours in a day, therefore about 1000 miles an hour.
I agree with Sutter-Cane - Monty Python "The meaning of life".
Relative to what?
Relative to the earth's core it takes 24 hours to spin once - depending where you are - at the pole its not much distance - at the equator that's a lot faster than any car can go.
Relative to our Sun it travels around 2 Million Miles in 24 hours - that's going some.
You don't even want to think how fast its Spinning relative to the centre of the galaxy.
And relative to the centre of the Universe - well even light is struggling to catch up (Red Shift)
The spin is fast in respect of linear velocity (1000 mph at Equator), but very slow in respect of angular velocity, 360 degrees in 24 hours.
The minute hand on your clock turns 24 times faster than the Earth.
At the equator it spins very fast. At the North and South Poles it doesn't spin at all.
really fast
Really fast.
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