On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:17:14 -0000,
wrote:

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Rob Morley said:
In article , "raden"
says...
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Well yes, by a fraction of a second, but like they said it's like an ice
skater pulling their arms in to rotate faster, nothing to do with "g"

ISTM that if we're rotating faster there's a larger force trying to
throw us off the planet, so anywhere other than the poles the
measured downward acceleration of a dropped body will be less.

I think not

Think again. "G" is less at the equator than the poles both because
it is further away from the Earth's center of mass and because of
centripetal force due to the rotation of the planet.

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Cynic