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If the diameter of an open parachute is 15 ft and the distance from the parachute to the center of the diameter is 8 ft what is the length of the suspension line?
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What is mean diameter?
I suppose it would depend on which object you are discussing as to what the major, minor and interim diameters are. In an elliptical orbit with a variable apogee (greatest distance from point of orbit)or variable plane (on which the satellite) orbits the major diameter would be where the orbit reaches its greatest distance from the gravity well and the minor diameter where it is closest to the gravity well. This center of gravity may or may not be near the center of the orbit (such as with comets), such that the actual diameter of the orbit may be as much as, or nearly so, 1/2 the major diameter. In a non-planar or variable plane orbit the effect of the gravitational field (or multiple gravity wells) may vary with the change in plane thus creating multiple orbits of various different diameters, the greatest being the major diameter. Such that, a circle drawn from the center of gravity with a radius described by the apogee of the satellite will scribe the major diameter. If talking about an ellipse on a flat plane, the major diameter is the most distant point from the center scribing a circle around the center, or twice the major radius from the center to the apogee. If talking about a spheroidal shape (such as the Earth) the major diameter is the plane at which the greatest diameter occurs. As in the Earth this plane is the equator.
What is the distance from the surface of the earth to the center in km?
The average distance from Earth's surface at the equator its center is about 6378 km. The distance from near the north and south poles to the center is somewhat less.
What is the distance from the surface of earth to the center is about?
Since the earth is not perfectly round, distances vary slightly. From the poles to the center its about 3950 miles. From the equator to the center its about 3960 miles The correct answer is the earth has an equitoral circumference of ~ 24,900 mi and diameter of ~ 7,926mi. With these facts we devise the surface to core distance to be ~3963mi at the equator and 3950mi from the poles.
What does oblate mean?
Oblate refers to an object that has a diameter at its center that is greater than the distance between its top and bottom. The Earth is an example of an oblate object that is wider at the Equator than it is from the North to South Poles.
Is it a greater distance from center of earth to the poles or center of earth to the equator?
I'm thinking center to equator
What is The distance across the center of a circle called?
The distance from one side of a circle to the other going through the center is called the Diameter, the distance from any side to the center (half the diameter) is called the radius.
Is the distance around the circle the diameter?
The distance around a circle is the circumference. The diameter of a circle is the distance across the center of a circle.
What is the radiu and diameter of circle?
The radius is the distance from the center to the outside. The diameter is the distance from the outside to the outside, passing through the center - in other words, twice the radius.
Why is the radius of a circle doubled the diameter?
Because the radius is the distance from one side to the center, and the diameter is the direct distance from one side to the other through the center.
Distance through the center of a circular object?
Diameter.
What is the distance across a circle through the center?
The diameter
What is the distance through the center of an object?
It is called the Diameter.
What is it when the distance across a circle through its center?
The diameter
Is a point a radius or a diameter?
No, neither. The radius is the distance from the center point of a circle to its edge. The diameter is the distance from one edge to the other that passes through the center point. The diameter is therefore twice the radius.
What is the distance from side to side through the center of earth called?
The distance from side to side through the center of the Earth is called the diameter. The Earth's diameter is 12,742 kilometers.
What is circumference and diameter and radius?
The circumference is the distance AROUND a circle. The diameter is the distance ACROSS a circle. The radius is the the distance FROM THE CENTER of the circle (same thing as one-half of the diameter).
What is the distance from a circle to it's center?
It is called the radius. The full distance is called the diameter.
