If the resultant force has a significant horizontal component (tangential to Earth's surface), it produces tidal bulges on Earth, creating what are known as:

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Jaidyn Baker

1 March, 05:58

If the resultant force has a significant horizontal component (tangential to Earth's surface), it produces tidal bulges on Earth, creating what are known as:

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Jaylee Jimenez · Answer 1

A tide generating force.

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The tidal motion on the earth occurs as due the bulges of the earth at the equator and the gravitational attraction of the sun and the moon and is a result of the tangential motion to the earth and is a fact of the horizontal motion of the tides that begin influenced by the wind and the rotation of the earth on its axis.