Why is the sun rise from the east and not from west?

Answer 1

because that is the way the earth rotates. anticlockwise

Answer 2

The Sun and all the stars in the sky rise and set at the same rate because we spin. We are always on the move eastward at 900 miles an hour. It's not that the sun is moving across the sky but rather we are spinning. Think of a NBA player spinning a basketball on his finger. If his head were the sun, from the balls perspective it would rise and set.

The direction of the spin was probably conferred to us by the rotation of the acretion disc that formed our sun and all the planets, most of the planets spin in the same direction, and the one that don't we think were thrown off their spin by a collision with another object in the solar system while it was still forming.

For more on accretion discs check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk

Answer 3

If you were at the north pole in June, you would see the midnight sun. The sun does not set or rise. It would be constantly daylight and the sun always drifts to the right. To the right is the west but it comes from the east.

Answer 4

The sun only appears to rise and set. In fact, the sun's position relative to the earth is somewhat stationary. It has to do with the rotation of the earth, which rotates (spins on its axis) in a manner that makes the sun appear to rise in the east and set in the west. The earth completes one such rotation each day.

Answer 5

Because the earth turns toward the east and there fore, when your location is in the opposite side from the sun and turns toward the east the sun appears to be "rising", but is just coming into view.

Answer 6

the earth rotates the direction of its rotation determines the way the sunrises
so instead of an anticlockwise direction if it rotated the opposite way you would have the sun setting in the east and rising in the west

Answer 7

The Earth spin countre clockwise. The Earth and all the other planets orbit the Sun counter clockwise. The Sun spins counter clockwise.

Ask youself this question. Why? What is the relation of the Sun spin and the planets orbit?

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Answer 8

the sun doesn't rise the earth rotates.
if you were in outer space at the level of the equator it would appear to spin left to right, if you were over the north pole it would look like it were spinning counter-clockwise.
therefore it appears to rise in the east and set in the west.
i hope this helps.

Answer 9

That's how YOU see it rises,that's only the earth rotating anticlockwise because of what forces it to rotate this way from other planets in the space.

Answer 10

It rises there because the Earth is turning toward the east, so we are carried toward the east by that motion.

Answer 11

It's the rotation of he earth that causes "sunrise" and "sunset".

The direction of rotation gives the direction of rising and setting of the sun.