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Publication Date: 2022-May
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An Intuitive Approach to Earth's Centrifugal Bulge
Physics Teacher, v60 n5 p369-371 May 2022
We describe a simple, intuitively appealing interpretation of the observed ellipsoidal shape of the rotating Earth: it is that surface everywhere perpendicular to the net force upon it.
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