Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 9E
What is the ratio of the Earth’s period of rotation about its own axis to the Earth’s orbital period about the sun?
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Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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