You tell a friend that the Earth is traveling greater than 62,000 miles per hour around the Sun. Your friend asks you: “Why aren’t we then swept off the Earth’s surface?” What is your explanation? Use Newton's First law and ideas of inertia.

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Newton's First Law of Motion

If a very smooth ball is rolled down an inclined surface with zero friction, the ball will continue to roll indefinitely for an infinite time, in an attempt to reach to the same height on the opposite hill!