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  2. Rotating spheres - Wikipedia

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    The rotating observers see the spheres in circular motion with angular rate ω S = ω I − ω R (S = spheres). That is, if the frame rotates more slowly than the spheres, ω S > 0 and the spheres advance counterclockwise around a circle, while for a more rapidly moving frame, ω S < 0, and the spheres appear to retreat clockwise around a ...

  3. Commentariolus - Wikipedia

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    All the spheres rotate around the Sun, which is near the centre of the Universe. The distance between the Earth and the Sun is an insignificant fraction of the distance from the Earth and the Sun to the stars, so parallax is not observed in the stars. The stars are immovable; their apparent daily motion is caused by the daily rotation of the Earth.

  4. Absolute rotation - Wikipedia

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    Figure 2: Two spheres tied with a string and rotating at an angular rate ω. Because of the rotation, the string tying the spheres together is under tension. Newton also proposed another experiment to measure one's rate of rotation: using the tension in a cord joining two spheres rotating about their center of mass.

  5. Newton disc - Wikipedia

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    Colour distribution of a Newton disk. The Newton disk, also known as the disappearing color disk, is a well-known physics experiment with a rotating disk with segments in different colors (usually Newton's primary colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, commonly known by the abbreviation ROYGBIV) appearing as white (or off-white or grey) when it's spun rapidly about its axis.

  6. Geocentric model - Wikipedia

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    In the fully developed Aristotelian system, the spherical Earth is at the center of the universe, and all other heavenly bodies are attached to 47–55 transparent, rotating spheres surrounding the Earth, all concentric with it. (The number is so high because several spheres are needed for each planet.)

  7. Globe of death - Wikipedia

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    Leo Garcia of the Garcia Family Thrill Riders designed and built the very first (horizontal) Triple Splitting Globe of Death in 2006. This Globe is the only one of its kind that hydraulically lifts 5 feet off the ground and splits/separates into three sections while the Garcia Thrill Riders race their motorcycles in the center piece with a 4-foot gap underneath them.

  8. Eudoxus of Cnidus - Wikipedia

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    Eudoxus, son of Aeschines, was born and died in Cnidus (also transliterated Knidos), a city on the southwest coast of Anatolia. [3] The years of Eudoxus' birth and death are not fully known but Diogenes Laërtius gave several biographical details, mentioned that Apollodorus said he reached his acme in the 103rd Olympiad (368– 365 BC), and claimed he died in his 53rd year.

  9. Magnus effect - Wikipedia

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    Some aircraft have been built to use the Magnus effect to create lift with a rotating cylinder instead of a wing, allowing flight at lower horizontal speeds. [2] The earliest attempt to use the Magnus effect for a heavier-than-air aircraft was in 1910 by a US member of Congress, Butler Ames of Massachusetts.