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Getting Tides Right

02 Aug 2016 - Seng Kwang Tan

08 Gravitational Fields
I was reading up on tides this morning as I have to relieve a colleague's IP2 class on forces, when I stumbled upon this video. It explains tides in a way that differs from most textbooks that clarified for me why the oceans bulge at both ends along the Moon-Earth line at the 2'30" mark onwards.

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