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Suppose the moon rotated on its axis just as quickly as Earth. Would you still always see the same side of the moon from Earth?

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cligon768
no. it would change. I think it already takes 4 weeks for it to make a revolution. 

if you made it 28 times faster to match us, you probably see 28 rotations before it made a complete orbit around us. 

so I think this would make it to where we would see a complete rotation of the moon each night
snehashish65

We will not see the same side of moon on increasing rotation speed of moon, due to the reduced orbital period of moon.

No, we will not see the same side of moon. The given problem is based on the time period of revolution or orbital period of moon. The orbital period of moon is defined as the time taken by the moon to complete one revolution around the Earth.

The standard value of orbital period of moon with respect to Earth is 28 days.

And the orbital period of Earth with respect to Sun is 365 days.

And the mathematical expression for the orbital period (T) is given as,

[tex]T=\dfrac{2 \pi R}{v}[/tex]

Here, R is the radius of moon and v is the velocity with which the moon is orbiting the Earth.

Clearly, increasing the orbital velocity (v) of the moon, the orbital period decreases and now with reduced orbital period, the new phases of moon can be visible from the Earth.

Thus, we can conclude that on increasing the speed of rotation of moon, the orbital period reduces and one can now observe different phases of moon from the Earth.

Learn more about the orbital period here:

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