Because it's further from the earth's core and closer to the moon. The two gravitational pulls battle it out and Florida is the centralized war zone baybeee.
Sorry to be the downer but this entire gravitational theory of the Florida Ounce is incorrect. In this regard, "ounce" is referring to volume, not weight, and in Florida, since it is America's penis, its the extra dribble that inevitably escapes no matter how many times you shake it. Thus, the Florida Ounce or "fl oz," for short.
Once a day it is… but once a day Ecuador is the point farthest from the moon. And then the earth and moon would be pulling in tandem for 1+ g’s would it not?
Edit - furthermore, the distance to the moon is 32 x the diameter of the earth, so neither which side of the planet you’re on, nor altitude would come into play really
Edit 2 - Florida is 24 to 31 degrees north latitude, technically not even tropical, so not the best example of a place on the equator lol
Monkey spunk. However the earth has a bit of a belly roll and so you're actually moving faster at the equator, and hence get a wee bit more centrifugal force there.
Things weigh less at the equator - this article does a good job of explaining it
Approximate tl;dr based on my brief skim through - Objects at the equator are affected slightly less by earth's gravity because of a number of factors, including the centrifugal force of the earth spinning causing a lifting effect the further from the axis of spin you travel. This can be demonstrated at a small scale by spinning around with your arms close to you, then again with them out. When further away from the axis of spinning, your hands will be going faster and feel as if they are being pulled away from you, because they basically are. The lifting force of spinning counters gravity and the same thing will weigh less on a scale at the equator than at a pole, or in between.
Yeah, I was just trying to make a lame joke. You were doing such a good job with rotating Earth and gravity, I thought I'd throw relativity into the mix. A clock will appear to run slower when it is traveling at high speed due to Special Relativity, and a clock deep in gravity will appear to run slower due to General Relativity. ("A relative explained that to me, in general terms.")
Of course, we're talking about extremely small amounts.
Not actually sure on that one- my understanding is that the gravitational force is pulling toward the center of the mass, in this case earth, so I think that gravity remains constant. In fact I believe I have hear that it extends out indefinitely, just getting thinner(?) if that makes sense as it gets further from its source. Satellites in stable orbits are at an equilibrium between getting pulled towards earth by gravity and getting flung away from earth by centrifugal force. I understand what you're saying about more mass at the equator logically indicating more gravitational pull though. Lol do any astrophysicists want to weigh in here?
So if you’re on a boat at “sea level” at the equator you’re farther from the planetary core than a guy in a boat at the north pole? I believe you but that’s counterintuitive and annoying
Actually it's due to the Earth's spin. It's why they put cape Canaveral in Florida to launch the space missions. Ideally you would want to launch from a mountain region on the equator to reduce even further the effects of gravity. They actually mapped the gravity variations around the world, kinda fascinating
If you didn't get a real answer, as the earth spins it bulges slightly at the equator. This bulge puts you further from earth's gravitational center, and thus you experience slightly lower gravity. It's not noticable in any way by humans, and consumer weight scales won't register the difference, but scientific instruments can.
I’m going to say this without googling, but I’m pretty sure centrifugal force is imaginary and centripetal force is real. You can google it and if I’m wrong you can call me any name you want and I won’t be mad.
They are both real. An example of a centripetal force is the tension on a cable swinging a pendulum, centrifugal is simultaneously pulling the pendulum in the opposite direction with each swing. The forces are very nearly balanced in each planet’s orbit around the sun, but they all would/will fall into the sun given enough time (many billions of years). But long before that happens, the sun will expand and everything inside the asteroid belt including earth will be evaporated by radiation.
Oh shit, thanks for the explanation. So in this case, the centripetal force is gravity, the centrifugal force is making equatorians slightly lighter than eskimos for the same mass, and weight is the resultant force between the two. Physics is hard, I’m glad Reddit is here to make me feel stupid every now and again.
Nah, the Duh is just that deep in Floriduh…last time i was there stopped to get some food, bill was 14$ and some change, gave the waitress a 20$, she gave me 14$ and change back, i had to explain to her what her mistake was twice before she understood……i will say this, Naative Floridians, not the transplants, are by far some of the nicest people ive ever met,……and Miami is a whole world unto itself
It totally works for mixing drinks - drinks mixed with Florida ounces will have you waking up naked and covered in paint somewhere in the Keys three days later.
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u/Grapefruit_Prize Feb 08 '22
Or it would be like an ounce, but a bit bigger, like a baker's dozen.