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Is Earth an inertial frame of reference?

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Earth is revolving round the Sun. Therefore, it possesses centripetal acceleration. Therefore, it should be treated as non-inertial frame of reference. However, value of centripetal acceleration of the Earth,

Which is negligible small compared to acceleration due to gravity (g = 9.8m/s2). Hence for terrestrial experiments, the Earth can be considered as an inertial frame.

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