A3_6 Pandora’s Floating Mountains: Rotational Momentum

Abstract

This report follows a previous article [1], which looked into the physics of how to cause a mountain to float as depicted in the James Cameron movie “Avatar”. This article seeks to prove this is possible through the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of a planet. It was discovered that the necessary period of rotation, if that planet were Earth, was 13.4 minutes.