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Model the Earth as a uniform sphere.
(a) Calculate the angular momentum of the Earth due to its spinning motion about its axis.
(b) Calculate the angular momentum of the Earth due to its orbital motion about the Sun.
(c) Explain why the answer in part (b) is larger than that in part (a) even though it takes significantly longer for the Earth to go once around the Sun than to rotate once about its axis.

 

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SHIVAM KUMAR
SHIVAM KUMARLv4
16 Nov 2020

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