how fast please?

Question

my son would like to know if anyone knows how fast the earth spins x

Answer 1

Several different answers: The Earth's surface has a circumference of approx. 25,000 miles, and rotates once a day (approx. 24 hours) 25,000 divided by 24 = 1,040 miles per hour at the surface. The Earth's center has a circumference of 0 and rotates once in 24 hours. This expression is meaningless, so let's take a point one foot from the center. The circumference of it's path is pi x 1 ft. or 3.14 ft. 3.14 divided by 24 will give the feet per hour of any point a foot from the center.

I guess your son is interested in the Earth's surface, and as aforesaid, that has a velocity of 1,040 miles per hour

Answer 2

The speed at which the earth spins varies upon your latitudinal location on the planet. If you're standing at the north pole, the speed is almost zero but at the equator, where the circumference of the earth is greatest, the speed is about 1,038 miles per hour (1,670 kph). The mid-latitudes of the U.S. and Europe speed along at 700 to 900 mph (1125 to 1450 kph).

Answer 3

The Earth is 24,900 miles around at the equator, so if we spin once every 24 hours, it's about 1000 miles per hour at the equator. As you move closer to the poles, your surface speed decreeses down to 0.

Answer 4

The circumference of the earth is about 24,000 at the equator and the earth spins one revolution per day. Rotational speed about a thousand miles per hour at the equator.

Answer 5

The speed of the earth can vary depending on your latitudinal location. If your at the equator the speed is about 1,038 miles per hour, but if you were standing at the north pole the speed is nearly zero. In the mid-latitudes like the U.S. the speed is between 700 and 900 miles per hour.

Answer 6

Yep - around a thousand miles an hour. You can figure it out by looking up the distance around the earth, which is about twenty five thousand miles, then realizing it covers that in 24 hours, so ... about a thousand miles an hour. If it suddenly stopped we'd all fly east into our next door neighbor's house at a thousand miles per hour too!

Answer 7

At the equator it spins at 1000 miles per hour.

Answer 8

Of course once every 24 hours which makes it around 1000 miles per hour at the equator.

Answer 9

1 revolution approximately every 24 hours.

Answer 10

1028 MPH