EE103, FallS. Boyd Homework 2 1. Distance from Palo Alto to Beijing. The surface of the earth is reasonably approximated as a sphere with radius R = 6367.5km. A location on the earth’s surface is

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1 The Measure of the Earth – a Saskatchewan diary Martin Beech Campion College, The University of Regina, Regina, SK. Sunday June 20th, 2004. Regina. It is 6 a.m. I am up and awake and ready to measure the

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Turbulent ship wakes: further evidence that the Earth is round David K. Lynch When viewed from the stern, a ship’s turbulent wake appears as a narrow strip of bubble-whitened water converging toward the horizon. The wa

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SPOT Mirror and Incidence Angles Consider the Earth centered at E with radius r, a SPOT satellite S at altitude a, and a focus point on the Earth’s surface F . The mirror angle, α in the figure below, describes how fa

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Calculations on space-time curvature within the Earth and Sun Wm. Robert Johnston last updated 3 November

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Earth-like Planets by the Score! Table of Candidate Planet Sizes Size Class Size Number of (Earth Radius)

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Fundamental Parameters and CurrentBest Estimates of the Parameters of Common Relevance to Astronomy, Geodesy, and Geodynamics by Erwin Groten, IPGD, Darmstadt At present, systems of fundamental constants are in a

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Click Here JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112, C05023, doi:2006JC004005, 2007 for

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Plants Samples D Students are shown modern examples of plants which are found as fossils e.g. a frond of Dawn Redwood, (metasequoia glyptostroboides, common in gardens), a Horsetail, common in damp places and photos of m

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