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Can someone please explain this I am so lost.

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As the world spins, your body makes a circle around it. Since your head is farther away, the radius of the circle it makes is larger, the circumference is as well, meaning your head has to travel farther (and faster) than your feet to complete one rotation; the actual difference is

2π(your height)

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