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The angular speed that should the earth have to rotate about its axis so that apparent weight of a body on the equator will be zero. What would be length of the day at that time (Radius of earth= 6400 km, g=9-8 `m/s_2`)

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4077 sec

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3077 sec

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5077 sec

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6077 sec

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