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The earth rotates once per day about its axis. where would you have to stand in order to have the smallest tangential speed?
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The earth rotates once per day about its axis. where would you have to stand in order to have the smallest tangential speed?

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The earth as a whole rotates with a fixed angular velocity. Therefore, you need to be at the rotation axis to have the smallest tangential speed. This would be at the north or south pole.
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