Re: curvature of buckets of water

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 14:08 7/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
> ... suppose one is trapped inside a box on a foreign
> planet. Is there an experiment that person can do to determine whether
> they are located coincident with the axis of rotation (i.e., north or
> south pole) rather than at some other latitude?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> | Robert Cohen

While savoring Bob's bucket, I too pondered the slight concavity one
would expect to counter the convex surface provided by the gravity vector
at the spin pole.
 But a rotation rate of 1/day is slow.
Remind me, what are the parameters of a parabola of equipotential
at 1/day?


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK