Explaining Planetary-Rotation Periods Using an Inductive Method

TL;DR

This paper investigates the factors influencing planetary rotation periods using an inductive approach, identifying velocity, acceleration, and radius as key factors, and exploring how mass impacts these variables.

Contribution

It introduces an inductive method to analyze planetary rotation, highlighting the roles of velocity, acceleration, and radius, and clarifying how mass influences these factors.

Findings

Velocity, acceleration, and radius are primary factors in planetary rotation.

Mass influences planetary radius and rotational torque.

Larger planetary mass correlates with larger radius and greater torque.

Abstract

This paper uses an inductive method to investigate the factors responsible for variations in planetary-rotation periods. I began by showing the presence of a correlation between the masses of planets and their rotation periods. Then I tested the impact of planetary radius, acceleration, velocity, and torque on rotation periods. I found that velocity, acceleration, and radius are the most important factors in explaining rotation periods. The effect of mass may be rather on influencing the size of the radii of planets. That is, the larger the mass of a planet, the larger its radius. Moreover, mass does also influence the strength of the rotational force, torque, which may have played a major role in setting the initial constant speeds of planetary rotation.