Tidal Locking Is What Makes the Moon Rotate About Its

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Essay

Tidal locking is what makes the Moon rotate about its own axis at the same rate that it revolves around Earth. Using as a model of a moon two identical masses of mass m connected by a light rod, explain how the forces on the masses would tend to keep this satellite in a fixed orientation.

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