How man times does the earth go around per hour?

Question

I read that the earth rotates on its axis at the rate of 1000 miles per hour. Is this true and why don't we feel it?

Answer 1

1/24. It goes around once a day.

Answer 2

The earth only rotates one time in 24 hours so in one hour it goes around 1/24 it's total distance. Since the circumference of the earth is approximately 24662 miles, then it DOES in fact go about 1000 miles per hour.

We don't feel it or notice it because it has been doing that our entire life so we were already used to that motion before we were even born. Since everything on earth is moving at this same rate, there is no reference point from which to "observe" the motion and so it appears not to be moving.

Answer 3

The Earth spins one time around every 24 hours or every one day.

Yes it is true the more close you are to the equator you spin the faster but the more close you are to the one of the poles you spin slower. Here where I am in America I'm going about 500-600 mph.

Can we feel the Earth spin?
Are we ever able to feel the Earth spin? Can other animals or creatures feel it spin or react to it? Why aren't we dizzy, but would we be if we could feel it? I am a parent of a child asking these questions over and over, convinced she can feel it. Maybe children can.

At the equator, the Earth is spinning at 1000 miles per hour about its axis and moving at 67,000 miles per hour around the Sun. With all this motion, you would expect to feel something, right? Well we don't feel anything because all of the motions are almost completely constant.

When you take a really smooth plane or train ride, you don't feel the motion unless the plane/train slows down, speeds up, or hits a bump in the road. So as long as there is constant motion, we don't feel it. Children do amaze me with their ability to perceive things, but I would be very surprised if your daughter could feel the slight wobbles the Earth has as it spins. I don't think the wobbles would be enough (could we feel them) to make someone dizzy.

There is also another way in which we could indirectly feel the Earth's spin. Above we said that the Earth spinning is an example of almost constant motion. The reason we said "almost" is that the Earth's spin carries us around in a circle, not in a straight line. It's a very big circle, and it takes a long time to go around, but qualitatively it is the same thing that happens on a spinning amusement park ride, where it feels like you're being flung outward as the ride spins around. The spinning Earth is flinging us away from its surface a tiny bit, so that we weigh a little less than we would otherwise, simply because we are not being held down to the surface as tightly.

However, this is a very small effect. At the equator, your weight is reduced (compared to a non-spinning Earth) by about 0.3%; the effect weakens as you go north or south, and once you reach the north or south pole it disappears completely because the Earth is not spinning there. So if you can feel differences in your weight of 0.3% (about half a pound for a 150 pound person), and if you travel from the equator to the north or south pole, then technically speaking, you could feel the effects of the Earth spinning. On the other hand, people's weight naturally fluctuates more than 0.3%, so it's unlikely that you'd be able to disentangle this from other effects (like whether or not you had just eaten lunch).

Answer 4

Actually, the earth rotates once every 23 hours 56 minutes. This is not the same as the length of a day (24 hours).

The length of a day is, on average, the time between successive moments when the sun is highest in the sky. Since the earth orbits the sun, it faces a slightly different direction each time this happens. E.G, in april, the sun is 90 degrees further around than it was in january (see diagram: http://ngdev.net/~birkett/sun.png )

This means that it rotates once more than the number of days in a year - so since a year is 365.25 days = 8766 hours and the earth rotates 366.25 times in that period, each rotation of the earth takes 23.934 hours = 23 hours 56 minutes.

To put it another way, it rotates 15.04 degrees per hour.

Answer 5

The Earth spins one time every 24 hours. Locations near the equator travel at about 1000 miles per hour. Locations near the poles travel much more slowly, because they have less distance to cover in that 24 hours. The poles themselves hardly move at all.

We don't feel the motion because it never changes. Like riding in a well-designed car on a straight road on cruise control. You can forget you are moving.

JIM

Answer 6

Agreed, 1/24th of a day in one hour.

If you ever want to get a sense of the rotation of the earth, look through a fairly high magnified, backyard telescope. One without a time drive. I was looking at Saturn and its rings when the time drive stopped. I actually saw Saturn move across the viewing field in about 15 seconds. That is how I actually saw the rotation of the earth.

Answer 7

None..
And yes the earth does rotate at 1000 mph however it
is 24,000 miles around the earth so it take one 24 hr day
to rotate once..
Ever notice how the sun comes up every morning ?
Did you think it was hiding ?

Answer 8

One twenty fourth

Answer 9

it goes around once in a day.

Answer 10

i wish you made scence in your question and out more detail.