Show that energy loss from Earths rotational kinetic energy at a rate of 3.9 TW (including dissipation

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Show that energy loss from Earth’s rotational kinetic energy at a rate of 3.9 TW (including dissipation and energy transferred to lunar orbit) corresponds to an increase in length of day of 2.3 ms/century. You may take Earth’s moment of inertia about its rotational axis to be I = 8.0 × 1037 kgm2.

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The Physics of Energy

ISBN: 978-1107016651

1st edition

Authors: Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

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