Does the string of a plumb line point at the center of the Earth?

Subject: Does the string of a plumb line point at the center of the Earth?

Date: Mon Jan 24 01:22:00 2000
Posted by Rebecca Berhanu
Grade level: undergrad School: Stanford University
City: Stanford State/Province: CA Country: USA
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 948698520.Es

Message:


I was wondering if the fact that the earth is not perfectly round, but sort 
of curved out at the center would affect this -- or would this somehow be 
related to the Coriolis Effect?

Re: Does the string of a plumb line point at the center of the Earth?

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