Consider a spherical planet with radius , that is rotating with angular velocity about it's axis. The lattitude of a point that is a height of away from the equator, is denoted as . Suppose that the acceleration due to gravity at the North pole is , then what is the effective acceleration ar point in terms of the latitude ?
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