"Nav" wrote in message ...


F= mr omega^2. The distance from the barycenter to all points on earth
is NOT the same.

As the site expalins in the next paragraph, only the center of the Earth rotates
around the barycenter. Other points rotate around neighboring points.

Anyway, the site clearly shows in Fig. 2 that it is the
_DIFFERENCE_ between gravity and centrifugal force that makes the tides,
not gravity alone.

We never disagreed on this point. My issue has always been that since Centrifugal
Force is constant, it doesn't directly explain the two bulges. It is useful for
people who would have trouble with the seeming "negative gravity" of the far side
bulge, but it is also possible to fully describe the tides quite simply without
Centrifugal Force at all.

There really is no point going on any more is there?
For myself, I'm sick of repeating the same point over and over.

But your point seems to change on each post. First you claim CF varies, then you
claim to be in complete agreement with a site that says its constant. Now you're
saying it varies again. You provide your formula and challange me to work it out,
then never explain why it give bogus answers.

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You keep citing the NOAA page,
http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/restles3.html
So I went back and read that in detail. In it is the "disclaimer":

"While space does not permit here, it may be graphically demonstrated that, for
such a case of revolution without rotation as above enumerated, any point on the
earth will describe a circle which will have the same radius as the radius of
revolution of the center-of-mass of the earth around the barycenter. Thus, in
Fig. 1, the magnitude of the centrifugal force produced by the revolution of the
earth and moon around their common center of mass (G) is the same at point A or
B or any other point on or beneath the earth's surface. Any of these values is
also equal to the centrifugal force produced at the center-of-mass (C) by its
revolution around the barycenter."

it goes on to develop differential gravity:

"While the effect of this centrifugal force is constant for all positions on the
earth, the effect of the external gravitational force produced by another
astronomical body may be different at different positions on the earth because
the magnitude of the gravitational force exerted varies with the distance of the
attracting body."

In other words, this site actually agrees with what I have been saying.
Frankly I owe an apology to the site's author, since I maligned it without
reading carefully. In fact, although it leads with a provocative line about a
"little known aspect of the moon's orbital motion," and has a rather confusing
diagram, its basic approach is correct and in full agreement with my claim.
Apparently the site was actually changed at some point about two years ago
because of complaints on another board.