what would happen to the mass of bodies on eartyh if earth stopped spinning?

Answer 1

The earth is spinning at about 1000 mph at the equator.

How fast do you want to decelerate from Mach 1.3?

Answer 2

The real answer to your question will depend on whether or not you plan to stop the earth's rotation instantly or slow it down to a stop over time.
If you slow the earth down over time, it may go completely unnoticed other than the days and nights will get longer and longer and you would become slightly heavier...No it is NOT centrifugal force (there is no such thing) it is linear momentum and centripetal accelleration that has a slightly countering effect on gravity. Even so, the effect is very small and you would only weigh a fraction more if the earth stopped spinning.
The most pronounced effects would be those caused by the ceasing of the day/night cycle.
On the other hand, if you were to stop the earth's rotation instantly, there would be a lurch eastward. Those at the equator would feel a the equivalent of around 1000m/h jolt. This is because they are already moving at that speed from west to east. If the earth stopped under them, they would tend to continue onward. Anything not tied down would suddenly jump eastward until friction (from air, water, solid objects) brings everything back to a standstill. And, of course, those who are farther away from the equator will experience less of a jolt as the velocity will be poprortional to the cosine of their latitudes.
Anyone standing at the pole will hardly notice anything at all except that the sun would stop moving in the sky.
Over several thousands of years, the earth would change its shape slightly from an oblate spheroid to a more spherical shape. This is because the equatorial bulge would no longer be supported by the centrifugal effect that is caused by the difference between linear accelleration and centripetal accelleration.
additionally the tides would take on a monthly cycle of two high and two low tides a month instead of one each day.
If the rotation of the earth was stopped by a short impulse, (by that I mean the force stopped the earth and then relased it), the fluid core of the earth would still be spinning and would start the earth rotating again but much more slowly. On the other hand, if the impulse was very long, (and by this I mean that something held the earth still long enough for the spinning core to stop spinning) then the earth's magnetic field would collapse and the surface would be exposed to some of the more nasty cosmic and gamma rays propagating through space.
Finally, after some thousands of years, the motion of the moon would actually restart the earth rotating. The moon would pull on the oceans, dragging them around the earth and over time, that tiny amount of global friction would start the earth spinning very slowly. Eventually the rotation would be one day per month.

Answer 3

You people who said we'd fly off the surface of the earth, or we'd go flying 1000 miles to the east are absurd. The earths rotation has nothing to do with gravity, which is the reason we stay firmly planted on the ground.
Gravity is the force from the amount of mass a body has (a planet or a star, say). The more massive the body the heavier things on it will be. So no you won't spin off into space, for heaven's sake.

Answer 4

Mass doesn't change! Weight varies, for it is the attraction of a large body to a smaller one, e.g. Earth to you. The Earth is not going to stop spinning, for it would take a great force to accomplish that. Everything on Earth's surface would be tossed into space at about 1042 miles-per-hour at the equator, due to inertia. The energy build-up would melt the planet. So much for the Bible tale of Joshua at the Battle of Jericho!

Answer 5

If earth stops spinning, the following will happen

1. It will be shattered in several thousand pieces to pulling by other heavenly bodies

2. Before that we all including everything on surface will be thrown out into space because gravity holds us from throwing out into space

Also, same gravity stops Earth and other heavenly objects from collision but exception to this is comets & astroids as they are outcast of universe with out coming under principles of space and physics.

So you won't be living to see what will happen to you and others when earth stops rotating.

Answer 6

We would all be launched to the East at about 1000 miles per hour... along with buildings trees and large masses of dirt and water. It would be a mess.... but it will never happen.

Answer 7

If spinning alone stops that means it will still revolve around the sun.Some similar condition already exists in the polar regions.The life will go on.We will have either day or night constantly..

Answer 8

If earth stops spinning centripetal force will seize to exist and we will fall of in the space,rotating in opposite direction in which earth rotates

Answer 9

The mass would remain unchanged, no matter what the spinning was.

If you mean weight, then there would be very little change, but it would be for the heavier.

Answer 10

The Mass would still be the same