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  2. Chandler wobble - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] This wobble, which is an astronomical nutation, combines with another wobble with a period of six years, so that the total polar motion varies with a period of about 7 years. The Chandler wobble is an example of the kind of motion that can occur for a freely rotating object that is not a sphere; this is called a free nutation.

  3. List of natural phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Examples include: sunrise, weather, fog, ... Over many intervals of time, natural phenomena have been observed by a series of countless events as a feature created by ...

  4. Non-inertial reference frame - Wikipedia

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    The rotation of the Earth seemingly causes the pendulum to change its plane of oscillation because the surroundings of the pendulum move with the Earth. As seen from an Earth-bound (non-inertial) frame of reference, the explanation of this apparent change in orientation requires the introduction of the fictitious Coriolis force.

  5. Coriolis force - Wikipedia

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    In the tower example, a ball launched upward would move toward the west. if the velocity is in the direction of rotation, the Coriolis force is outward from the axis. For example, on Earth, this situation occurs for a body at the equator moving east relative to Earth's surface. It would move upward as seen by an observer on the surface.

  6. Deferent and epicycle - Wikipedia

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    The apparent motion of the heavenly bodies with respect to time is cyclical in nature. Apollonius of Perga (3rd century BC) realized that this cyclical variation could be represented visually by small circular orbits, or epicycles, revolving on larger circular orbits, or deferents. Hipparchus (2nd century BC) calculated the required orbits ...

  7. Special relativity - Wikipedia

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    This is described by: = + /, where v(t) is the velocity at a time t, a is the acceleration of the spaceship and t is the coordinate time as measured by people on Earth. [ p 20 ] Therefore, after one year of accelerating at 9.81 m/s 2 , the spaceship will be travelling at v = 0.712 c and 0.946 c after three years, relative to Earth.

  8. Earth system interactions across mountain belts - Wikipedia

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    Earth system interactions across mountain belts are interactions between processes occurring in the different systems or "spheres" of the Earth, as these influence and respond to each other through time. Earth system interactions involve processes occurring at the atomic to planetary scale which create linear and non-linear feedback(s ...

  9. Acceleration (special relativity) - Wikipedia

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    In order to find out the transformation of three-acceleration, one has to differentiate the spatial coordinates and of the Lorentz transformation with respect to and ′, from which the transformation of three-velocity (also called velocity-addition formula) between and ′ follows, and eventually by another differentiation with respect to and ′ the transformation of three-acceleration ...