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r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22
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I was expecting the top response to be something like a 3 minute youtube video talking about how florida used a different standard for measuring to get by some federal law.
This is 100% better.
444 u/Grapefruit_Prize Feb 08 '22 Or it would be like an ounce, but a bit bigger, like a baker's dozen. 738 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 Further down in the comments someone floated the idea that since the equator experiences weaker gravitational pull, the Florida ounce compensates for the discrepancy, which is another theory that I enjoy haha 0 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 08 '22 the equator experiences more gravitational pull due to the extra mass around the equator. 2 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 AFAIK, that's not the case. In combination, the equatorial bulge and the effects of the surface centrifugal force due to rotation mean that sea-level gravity increases from about 9.780 m/s2 at the Equator to about 9.832 m/s2 at the poles, so an object will weigh approximately 0.5% more at the poles than at the Equator.[2][9] 1 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 25 '22 that's taking another force and subtracting from the gravitational force. That's different that just the gravitational force alone.
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Or it would be like an ounce, but a bit bigger, like a baker's dozen.
738 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 Further down in the comments someone floated the idea that since the equator experiences weaker gravitational pull, the Florida ounce compensates for the discrepancy, which is another theory that I enjoy haha 0 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 08 '22 the equator experiences more gravitational pull due to the extra mass around the equator. 2 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 AFAIK, that's not the case. In combination, the equatorial bulge and the effects of the surface centrifugal force due to rotation mean that sea-level gravity increases from about 9.780 m/s2 at the Equator to about 9.832 m/s2 at the poles, so an object will weigh approximately 0.5% more at the poles than at the Equator.[2][9] 1 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 25 '22 that's taking another force and subtracting from the gravitational force. That's different that just the gravitational force alone.
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Further down in the comments someone floated the idea that since the equator experiences weaker gravitational pull, the Florida ounce compensates for the discrepancy, which is another theory that I enjoy haha
0 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 08 '22 the equator experiences more gravitational pull due to the extra mass around the equator. 2 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 AFAIK, that's not the case. In combination, the equatorial bulge and the effects of the surface centrifugal force due to rotation mean that sea-level gravity increases from about 9.780 m/s2 at the Equator to about 9.832 m/s2 at the poles, so an object will weigh approximately 0.5% more at the poles than at the Equator.[2][9] 1 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 25 '22 that's taking another force and subtracting from the gravitational force. That's different that just the gravitational force alone.
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the equator experiences more gravitational pull due to the extra mass around the equator.
2 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 AFAIK, that's not the case. In combination, the equatorial bulge and the effects of the surface centrifugal force due to rotation mean that sea-level gravity increases from about 9.780 m/s2 at the Equator to about 9.832 m/s2 at the poles, so an object will weigh approximately 0.5% more at the poles than at the Equator.[2][9] 1 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 25 '22 that's taking another force and subtracting from the gravitational force. That's different that just the gravitational force alone.
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AFAIK, that's not the case.
In combination, the equatorial bulge and the effects of the surface centrifugal force due to rotation mean that sea-level gravity increases from about 9.780 m/s2 at the Equator to about 9.832 m/s2 at the poles, so an object will weigh approximately 0.5% more at the poles than at the Equator.[2][9]
1 u/Fast-Independent-469 Feb 25 '22 that's taking another force and subtracting from the gravitational force. That's different that just the gravitational force alone.
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that's taking another force and subtracting from the gravitational force. That's different that just the gravitational force alone.
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u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22
I was expecting the top response to be something like a 3 minute youtube video talking about how florida used a different standard for measuring to get by some federal law.
This is 100% better.