The earth rotates once per day about its axis. where would you have to stand in order to have the smallest tangential speed?

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The earth as a whole rotates with a fixed angular velocity. Therefore, you need to be at the rotation axis to have the smallest tangential speed. This would be at the north or south pole.

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D.None of these

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And for the mass $m_1$

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Using the formula for the acceleration we find

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