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How is distance measured from the Equator?
Distance from the Equator is measured using lines of latitude. The Equator is designated as 0 degrees latitude, and distances are measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds north or south of the Equator.
Why is the distace between earth and the sun measured in light minutes and the distance between neptune and the sun measured in light hours?
Because it only takes 8 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth, but it takes 4 hours to reach Neptune.
How can you give examples for absolute location?
Absolute location is typically defined by 3 (sometimes 4 variables): Latitude (distance from equator measured in degrees, minutes and seconds), longitude (distance from the prime meridian also given in degrees, minutes and seconds), elevation (distance above/below sea level) and sometimes time.
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Declination, which is measured as an angle, north is positive and south is negative. The declination of a star etc. is also the latitude at which the star passes overhead.
Units used to measure the distance to stars in terms of whether their starlight takes minutes or years to reach earth?
The distance to stars is typically measured in light-years, which is the distance light travels in one year. Light-years are used because the distances to stars are vast and measuring in kilometers or miles would be impractical. For closer stars, distances can sometimes be measured in parsecs, which is another unit of distance based on trigonometric parallax.
What term is used for the measurement of distance from the equator?
Latitude, which is measured in degrees, minutes and seconds.
How is distance measured from the Equator?
Distance from the Equator is measured using lines of latitude. The Equator is designated as 0 degrees latitude, and distances are measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds north or south of the Equator.
The distance between two cities is usually measured in?
Miles in the US. Kilometers in most other places. Or, distance is often measured in time: How many hours or minutes does it take to get there.
Why is the distance from the sun and earth is measured by light minutes and the distance from the sun and Pluto is measured by light years?
There is nothing in our solar system far enough away from anything else in our solar system to be measured in light years. Light from the sun takes 340 minutes to reach Pluto, ie. 340 light minutes. Apart from the sun, the nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light years away.
How long in light years is it to Jupiter?
The distance to Jupiter is better measured in light minutes. Depending on the relative positions in orbit the distance is anywhere between 30 and 70 light minutes. 0.000057 to 0.00013 light years
Why is the distace between earth and the sun measured in light minutes and the distance between neptune and the sun measured in light hours?
Because it only takes 8 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth, but it takes 4 hours to reach Neptune.
What are angles usually measured in?
They are measured in degrees, minutes and seconds
What unit would you use to measure time to run a race?
The answer depends on the distance. Marathons are measured in hours and minutes, sprint distances in hundredths of a second.
The distance covered by an object over a period of time?
The distance covered by an object over a period of time is calculated by multiplying the speed of the object by the time it traveled. This can be represented by the formula: distance = speed x time. The unit of distance is typically measured in meters, kilometers, miles, or other length units, while the unit of time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, etc.
How can you give examples for absolute location?
Absolute location is typically defined by 3 (sometimes 4 variables): Latitude (distance from equator measured in degrees, minutes and seconds), longitude (distance from the prime meridian also given in degrees, minutes and seconds), elevation (distance above/below sea level) and sometimes time.
The question comes from my Physics workbook - where else apart from astronomy time units are used to describe measured distance?
You can use it whenever a certain speed is assumed. For example, "the school is 5 minutes walking distance from my home", or "the supermarket is 10 minutes from my home, by car". This is not very precise in terms of distance, but it gives you an idea.
How are angles measured?
Angles are measured with a protractor in degrees, minutes and seconds.
