Tides

Never give up, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I

seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,
and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother
pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean
of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-- Isaac Newton
Tides are the vertical movement of water, specifically the alternate
rise (flood) and fall (ebb) of water in the ocean. This is mostly
noticeable along continental shorelines.

Moon
Earth

Why?
The influence of the Moon’s gravitational force acting on the
Earth’s oceans and the Earth (the rocky part).
 Tides are more influenced by the gravitational effect of the
Moon than they are by that of the Sun (the Moon's closeness
to us outweighs by far the Sun's greater size). Low Tide

Moon
Earth

High Tide
High Tide

So, as the Earth spins around its axis, how many high and
low tides do we have a day? Low Tide
Sun
Spring Tides
The gravitational affects of the moon and sun combine to
influence the flow of the oceans on Earth.

Moon
Moon Moon

Earth

Phaseofofthe
Phase themoon?
moon? Phase of the moon?
NewMoon
New Moon Full Moon

Higher high tides and lower low tides

Neap Tides
Moon Phase of the moon?
The gravitational affects of Moon Phase of the moon?
Third Quarter
the moon and sun fight Third Quarter
each other with their
influence on the flow of
the oceans on Earth.

Earth

Phase of the moon?

Moon
First Quarter

Lowest high tides and highest low tides

 Tides & Consequences
• This little tidal behavior goes both ways! The Earth rises tides on the Moon.

• The Earth "brakes" the Moon's rotation AND the braking is complete!
Synchronous Rotation of the Moon and its orbital period! (27.3 days!)

• We see a permanent "near" and "far side" of the Moon.

• Moon also brakes the Earth's Rotation

• The length of the "day" is increasing!

 From fossil reef corals of about 4108 years old - daily growth/annual growth 
400 days/year ~ 22 hours a day!
 Day is increasing about 0.001 seconds/century.

• Moon's orbit is growing because of all of this interaction.

Therefore, the day is getting longer, Moon looks smaller, and tides are weakening.