tide-generating force

(General Physics) the difference between the force of gravity exerted by the moon or the sun on a particle of water in the ocean and that exerted on an equal mass of matter at the centre of the earth. The lunar tide-generating forces are about 2.2 times greater than are the solar ones. See also neap tide, spring tide, tide¹

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Writing in 1913, the Swedish oceanographers Otto and Hans Pettersson described such remarkable events and observed that this situation "produces an absolute maximum of the tide-generating force." In his 1986 work, Tidal Dynamics, Fergus Wood concurs.

High Tides and The Canterbury Tales : In one of his famous poems, Chaucer may have described a rare astronomical configuration that actually occurred in the 14th century

Neither has anyone been able to conceive a purely dynamic theory to directly relate tide-generating forces to actual tides (Clancy 1969; LeBlond and Mysak 1978).

Tides and their seminal impact on the geology, geography, history, and socio-economics of the Bay of Fundy, eastern Canada

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