Question: We have all complained that there arent enough hours in a day. In an attempt to change that, suppose that all the people in the

We have all complained that there aren’t enough hours in a day. In an attempt to change that, suppose that all the people in the world line up at the equator, and all start running east at 2.50 m/s relative to the surface of the Earth. By how much does the length of a day increase? Assume that the world population is 5.50 x 109 people with an average mass of 70.0 kg each, and that the Earth is a solid homogeneous sphere. In addition, you may use the approximation 1/(1 - x) = 1 + x for small x.

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