What would happen to the amount of solar radiation the earth recieves if it rotated twice as fast?
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Nothing would happen, how fast the earth rotates is immaterial to how mush radiation it absorbs, how quickly the earth orbits the sun is also immaterial. The only variable that could make a difference would be if the orbit changed, which is had several time in the past (speculative cause of the various ice ages, most recently 13,000 to 8,000 ya.)
seem to me it would remain the same
Nothing.
As long as the earths orbit stays the same, it doesn't matter how fast it rotates. The sun still shines on the earth and gives off the same amount of energy, and the same amount of energy falls on the earth. Spinning faster doesn't change that.
it will be halved because the exposure time to the radiation for tht period of time wud be less, eg take ur camera if its shutter speed is 2x it will let light in for 1/2 s,nd if it is 4s it will let the light in for 1/4 s, so the faster the earth rotates,less radiation for that same span of "time", it will get less solar radiation for the same amnt of time,remember i am stressing on time.
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