How can a plane that takes off from the North Pole land in a city at the equator?
There are a couple problems in your assumption. First you’re assuming the plane flies in a straight line to the city. It can easily fly ahead of the city so that it gets there at the same time as the city. There is a problem with this as well. This would be assuming that there are no external forces on the plane. Air rotates with the earth as well due to gravity, inertia and other forces. Therefore as the plane flies south it would also pick up a velocity in the direction the earth is rotating. It is basically a difference between ideal physics, no wind resistance, not external forces other than gravity, and real life physics where all these things affect what’s going on. Finally thre is a frame of reference issue here. You say a plane only flies about 600 mph. This is relative to how fast the earth is moving. Think of running on a treadmill. If the treadmill is moving at 15 mph and you’re keeping up you feel like you’re moving 15mph but to someone standing on the side you’re not movin
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