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    The tidal force or tide-generating force is a gravitational effect that stretches a body along the line towards and away from the center of mass of another...
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    Tide (redirect from Tidal flow)
    and 12:00 respectively), so in many places the period of strongest tidal forcing is the above-mentioned, about 12 hours and 25 minutes. The moment of...
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  • Look up tidal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tidal is the adjectival form of tide. Tidal may also refer to: Tidal (album), a 1996 album by Fiona Apple...
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    Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change...
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  • Moon but that of the Sun is also important. The images here show lunar tidal force when the Moon appears directly over 30° N (or 30° S). This pattern remains...
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    Galactic tide (redirect from Tidal loops)
    A galactic tide is a tidal force experienced by objects subject to the gravitational field of a galaxy such as the Milky Way. Particular areas of interest...
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    centrifugal force caused by Earth's progression around the Earth-Moon barycenter. Tidal range depends on time and location. Larger tidal range occur during...
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    Spaghettification (category Tidal forces)
    the Earth, this maximum tensile force due to the tidal force is only 0.4 μN. Due to the high density, the tidal force near the surface of a white dwarf...
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    Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon) and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth)...
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    that it is pulled apart by the black hole's tidal force. The star undergoes spaghettification, producing a tidal stream of material that loops around the...
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    Theory of tides (redirect from Tidal theory)
    is the application of continuum mechanics to interpret and predict the tidal deformations of planetary and satellite bodies and their atmospheres and...
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    called a tidal node, is a geographical location where there is little or no difference in sea height between high tide and low tide; it has zero tidal amplitude...
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    the gravitational force of the perturbing body everywhere on the surface of Earth, what remains may be regarded as the tidal force. This gives the paradoxical...
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    Roche limit (category Tidal forces)
    celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the second body's self-gravitation...
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  • Tidal heating (also known as tidal working or tidal flexing) occurs through the tidal friction processes: orbital and rotational energy is dissipated...
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    section previously included the area up to and including Tidal Force until 2007 when Tidal Force and Canyon River Rapids were rezoned into the new Boardwalk...
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  • manifold. Like the Riemann curvature tensor, the Weyl tensor expresses the tidal force that a body feels when moving along a geodesic. The Weyl tensor differs...
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  • resulting tidal force is a secondary effect of gravity: it is the difference between the actual gravitational force and the centrifugal force. While the...
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    tidal waves in the ocean is far slower than the speed of the Moon's tidal forcing. As a result, the ocean is never in near equilibrium with the tidal...
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    stationary in Mercury's sky. The 3:2 resonant tidal locking is stabilized by the variance of the tidal force along Mercury's eccentric orbit, acting on a...
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    A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water...
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  • of the material it is made of, its density, and the tidal force at its altitude. The tidal force is proportional to the average density inside the radius...
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  • loss via YORP spin-up, or occasionally by close encounters with the tidal force of Earth or other planets (Whipple, 1940; Klačka, 1999). In total, this...
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    eclipses on the Moon Eclipse cycle Supermoon Tide Tidal force Tidal locking Tidal acceleration Tidal range Lunar station Surface and features Selenography...
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    classifications. First, the tidal forces in the vicinity of the event horizon are significantly weaker for supermassive black holes. The tidal force on a body at a...
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  • States where tidal scour is the predominant shaping force is the San Francisco Bay and the Elkhorn Slough.[better source needed] Tidal force can also contribute...
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    gravitational perturbation of the Oort cloud by the tidal force exerted by the Milky Way. Just as the Moon's tidal force deforms Earth's oceans, causing the tides...
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    concluded that tidal forces (the tidal lag or "friction") caused by Earth's rotation and the forces acting upon it by the Moon are a driving force for plate...
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    lunar perigee, the tidal force is somewhat stronger, resulting in perigean spring tides. However, even at its most powerful, this force is still relatively...
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  • along two initially parallel trajectories, the presence of a tidal gravitational force will cause the trajectories to bend towards or away from each...
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