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Eratosthenes (a greek) was the first person known to have accurately measured earth's radius. He did that about 250 BCE. The trick was to measure the length of the shadow cast by the library at Alexandria during the summer solstice, and knowing the distance between Alexandria and Cyene--a city on the Tropic of Cancer. A bit of trigonometry, and earth's radius falls right out.
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How do you calculate radius of the circle when you do not have diameter?
Double the Radius to Calculate the Diameter.
How to calculate Length of long-radius elbow?
how to calculate the elbow radius or elbow length
Is the earths radius and surface area increasing?
no
How do you calculate radius of rotation?
From what? You need other variables you can use in the standard circle formulae from which to calculate the radius.
How do you calculate radius from pipe diameter?
diameter = 2 * radius
The planet Neptune's size compared to the other planets?
Mercury's radius (at the equator) = 2440km or 0.3825 x Earths Venus' radius = 6052km or 0.9488 x Earths Earth's radius = 6378km Mars' radius = 3397km or 0.5323 x Earths Jupiter's radius = 71,492km or 11.21 x Earths Saturn's radius = 60,267km or 9.45 x Earths Uranus' radius = 25,557km or 4.01 x Earths Neptune's radius = 24,766km or 3.88 x Earths
How do mercury radius and mass compare with the earths?
Mercury is much smaller and less massive than Earth. Mercury has a radius of about 1,516 miles (2,440 km) compared to Earth's radius of about 3,959 miles (6,371 km). Mercury's mass is about 0.055 times that of Earth.
How do you calculate radius of the circle when you do not have diameter?
Double the Radius to Calculate the Diameter.
How to calculate Length of long-radius elbow?
how to calculate the elbow radius or elbow length
Is the earths radius and surface area increasing?
no
How many times bigger than the earths radius is the suns radius?
The radius of the Sun is about 109 times larger than the radius of the Earth.
How do calculate working radius of a crane?
calculate radius of crane: The radius is always measured from the centre of rotation and is the radius measured after the boom deflects forward when under load.
How do you calculate radius of rotation?
From what? You need other variables you can use in the standard circle formulae from which to calculate the radius.
C program on how to calculate circumference of a circle?
int radius = 2; int output; radius = radius * 2; output = radius * Math.PI; Console.WriteLine(output);
How do you calculate the radius of a circle?
The radius of a circle is half of its diameter.
How do you calculate radius from pipe diameter?
diameter = 2 * radius
If the circumference of a circle is increased by 50 then the area will be increased by?
there is no constant that will calculate this, since circumference is calculated with only radius and area with radius squared. you will have to calculate the radius using the initial circumference and then the radius again for the new circumference (with the 50 added). then calculate an area for each radius..then you can see the increase.
