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Tidal Waves Study Guide

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1. Periodical waves that move according to the sun and moon. Oceans. Coastlines.
2. Highest part of the wave. Lowest part of the wave
3. Different altitudes of a tide. A tide’s uniform act.
4. An approaching tide is a flood current. An outgoing tide is an ebb current. Aforetime or adjacent to high and low tide periods. When they are called slack tides.
5. Weakly. Rapid, with increasing speed.
1. Sun and moon.
2. “Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that the gravitational attraction between two bodies is directly proportional to their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the bodies (Sumich, J.L., 1996; Thurman, H.V., 1994).”
3. Distance rather than mass.
4. Sun. Larger mass and the power to exert more gravitational attraction.
1. The tendency to stay the same; without motion.
2. Water is moved to the moon’s gravitational force and creates a bulge.
3. Inertia overrides on the distant side. The water attempts to flow on a consecutive line and creates a bulge.
1. As the earth revolves around the sun and moon, they both produce declination.
2. The spring and fall equinoxes. The summertime and wintertime solstices.
1. Solar days measure being under the sun meanwhile a lunar day measures being under the moon. A solar day is 24 hours meanwhile a lunar day is 24 hours and 50 minutes. 24 hours and 50 minutes.
2. The earth pivots over 2 tidal “bulges” each lunar day.
3. 12 hours and 25 minutes. 6 hours and 12.5 minutes.
1. Half as

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