• GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    If anyone is wondering it’s actually because of frame of reference. The first two images have speeds in relation to the rotation of earth, the last imagine uses a different frame of reference. If you put the last image in the same frame of reference as the first two images the number there would be 0km/h, because it would be moving in relation to itself.

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      1 month ago

      It’s actually because the thing that makes you make those faces is the acceleration, not the speed.

      All three reference frames shown are accelerated, non inertial frames. But the first two have “fictitious” centrifugal accelerations somewhere around 0.5-2.5 g. The third frame has a detectable centrifugal acceleration, but it’s like 0.003 g or something, and can be lumped in with gravity for many types of problems.

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        1 month ago

        It’s actually because of wind resistance, the air is moving the same speed as the ground when the earth turns so you don’t feel it.

        (don’t @ me I’m just following what I recognized to be a humorous pattern of technically correct "well actually"s)