Earth's rotation is the invisible hand that ... everything not anchored to the ground would be flung eastward due to inertia. Imagine a car suddenly braking at high speed; passengers would lurch ...

The mass of the object is the quantitative measure of inertia on the object ... quantity of three-dimensional space that an object occupies. Many processes on Earth can be attributed to the ...

2. Moment Shift The Three Gorges Dam alters Earth’s “moment of inertia”—its resistance to spinning—by concentrating massive weight far from the center of rotation. Like adding weight to ...