Re: Mother nature

Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:30:57 -0700

> > > Ron Kean wrote:
> > > Tides on earth are caused by both the sun and moon, though the
> > moon's> > effect dominates. If the moon were removed, tides would not
> > entirely> > stop.>
>
> Tidal force is proportional to the mass of the body causing the force and
> inversely proportional to the cube of the distance to that body....

Ron, I did do this calc wrong. The distance to the moon varies about 3 percent between moon overhead and moon underfoot, whereas the distance to the sun, noon vs midnight, only varies only about one part in ten thousand, or a hundredth of a percent. Turns out the tides are more complicated than that. Looks like you did your homework. Back to Physics 101 with me... {8-[ {8^D spike