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3 years ago

What causes variations in temperature on Earth?

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2 answers:

saveliy_v [14]3 years ago

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Earth's temperature depends on the balance between energy entering and leaving the planet's system.

Ilya [14]3 years ago

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There are many more things that cause temperature fluctuation around the average without causing the long-term average itself to change. This change is attributed by natural processes such as volcanic activity, solar variability, plate tectonics, or shifts in the Earth's orbit.

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In 1 hour, the hour hand sweeps across 1/12 of the clock's face. In 40 min, the hour hand travels (40 min)/(60 min) = 2/3 of the path it covers in an hour, so a total of 1/12 × 2/3 = 1/18 of the clock's face. This hand traces out a circle with radius 0.25 m, so in 40 min its tip traces out 1/18 of this circle's radius, or

1/18 × 2π (0.25 m) ≈ 0.087 m

The minute hand traverses (40 min)/(60 min) = 2/3 of the clock's face, so it traces out 2/3 of the circumference of a circle with radius 0.31 m:

2/3 × 2π (0.31 m) ≈ 1.3 m

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The acceleration is 1 cm/s^2.

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time, t = 1 s

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