Tidal Evolution a Concise Statement of the Effect of Tidal Friction On the Diur
Tidal Evolution a Concise Statement of the Effect of Tidal Friction On the Diur
B R Baumgardt
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The product of this discrepancy will furnish us with an approximation of the relative amount of the lengthening of the day. The same high authority has arrived at a valua- tion of i per cent for 20, 000, 000 years. Out of curiosity I have myself calculated what this i per cent means in fractions of diurnal motion, and have found it to roughly correspond to 864 seconds, or 14^2 minutes. Therefore, if any assurance can be placed on the figures which Sir William Thomson sub- mits, it would appear ...that the earth today does require 14^ minutes more to perform one revolution on its axis than it did 20, 000, 000 years ago. It only needs to be added that this is not presented as an accurate result, but rather as an inter- esting speculation. But in accordance with Galileo's third law of motion, that to every action there must always be an equal and oppo- site reaction, it may be asked in what way this reaction exhibits itself in the tidal action of the earth-moon system. The moon, as we have seen, acts upon the earth by retarding TIDAL EVOLUTION.
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