At what speed does the earth revolves on it's own axis. Why don't we the feel the Earth's revolution?

Question

We know day and night is due to earths revolution. But I am speaking about the feeling of the revolution.

Answer 1

Just over 1000 miles per hour at the equator.

You don't feel it because it's constant. When you're in a car, or an airplane, and you're running steady, you don't feel the speed. Relative to your position, it doesn't change.

Now, if someone put the brakes on the rotation, things would go flying (but be held in place by gravity).


EDIT: Amy, your answer is too spooky to mine!

Answer 2

When you are in a car, train, or airplane, you can move around comfortably even though the vehicle is hurtling along. It's the same way with the Earth. The surface velocity relative to the center is a bit more than 1,000 mph at the equator, which counters gravity there *slightly*, making Earth an oblate spheroid (flattened at the poles). But everything on the Earth including oceans and atmosphere is spinning along with it. The only noticeable effect is when something moves north or south, there is a small force that curves its path (often called the Coriolis effect). This leads to wind and ocean current patterns, including hurricane direction. Similarly, Earth moves in its orbit at almost 30 km/s (over 100,000 mph!), but since everything is moving with it, we don't notice. Earth's rotational and orbital velocity *does* have to be taken into account when we launch spacecraft, since we need to calculate thrusts and directions relative to whatever the destination is. And you could go beyond the Solar System to note that the Sun is in orbit around the galaxy and the galaxy is speeding toward the Andromeda galaxy, but we are all going along for the ride.

Answer 3

Since the Earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference and it takes 24 hours to rotate the Earth rotates at about 1000 miles per hour. The reason you do not feel it is because you are traveling at the same rate. If you traveled in a train without windows you would not realize at what speed you were moving. It is only when you can relate it to the landscape that is not moving at the same speed that you realize that you are moving at a fast rate of speed.

Answer 4

I can answer the second question; we do not feel the revolution because everything around us is moving at the same speed as we are. As humans, we do not have a sense-based way to measure anything absolutely - it's always related (compared) to something else. We compare what's around us to us & it seems to be standing still.

Great question!

;-)

Answer 5

The earth moves at 1040 mph, at the equator. You don't feel the earth moving because because it's constant. When you're in a car, or an airplane, and you're running steady, you don't feel the speed. Relative to your position, it doesn't change.

But if it were to stop, then you would feel it.

Answer 6

It rotates on its axis once a day. The rotation is too slow to feel, but it can be observed with a gyroscope or a Foucault's pendulum. Of course, the motion of the sun and stars are obvious.

Answer 7

approx 25,000 miles in 24 hours.

slow compared to light speed.

gravity and such.....

do you feel the slow turn of a car and of a plane?
no...