Angular Speed of Earth's rotation around its axis

Angular Speed of Earth's rotation

Angular Speed of rotation of Earth: -

Earth rotates from West to East on its axis and it takes 24 hours in completing one rotation around its axis which means it rotates by 360° in this time interval of 24 hours.

One rotation (360°) finishes in 24 hours or 24 × 60 minutes

360° = 24 × 60 minutes

1° = (24 × 60 minutes) / 360° = 4 minutes

This way Earth would take 4 minutes in rotating through 1° and which is its angular speed of rotation around its axis .

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