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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
- Subject: Re: Two high tides (Was: Full moon and tides)
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 19:08:12 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <scottj-211292091243@iamac-1.dml.georgetown.edu> <1h50c7INNees@news.aero.org> <scottj-221292163050@iamac-1.dml.georgetown.edu>,<1992Dec23.163859.16008@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec23.163859.16008@cerberus.ulaval.ca>, duquet@astro.phy.ulaval.ca (Jean-Remi Duquet) writes:
- >Maybe I can add something to this discussion. This explanation, while
- >technically correct, applies mostly to solid bodies. For example, a solid
- >satellite comig close to a massive planet will be disrupted by the differential
- >force between the center and the close and far sides of the satellite.
- >
- >However, this effect is small and can't explain the tides by itself.
-
- Er, yes, it does.
-
- >The principal effect is, strangely, the force perpendicular to the axis
- >between the two bodies. If you compute the effective (vectorial) force
- >on the surface of the ocean (i.e. the gravitational pull from the moon
- >minus the force that keeps the Earth-Moon system together), you will notice
- >that this force is oriented outward when you are along E-M axis, inward
- >when you are perpendicular to it, and parallel to the surface of the earth
- >when at 45 degrees.
-
- Water being a fluid, though, is incapable of passing compressional forces along
- the surface, so the effect of the compressional force you're talking about is
- only a second-order effect at the locus of a high tide.
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