Does the world spin really fast or really slow?

Answer 1

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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Answer 2

The Earth spins one complete rotation every 23 hours and 56 minutes. In a day, it actually spins slightly farther than a complete rotation. You decide whether that is "fast" or "slow", because I don't know how you draw the line between fast and slow.

Answer 3

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)

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

At the equator it spins very fast. At the North and South Poles it doesn't spin at all.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

It probably takes all day just to spin around once.

Answer 9

Really fast.

Answer 10

Really fast!