Suppose that, while lying on a beach near the equator watching the Sun set over a calm ocean, you start a stopwatch just as the

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Suppose that, while lying on a beach near the equator watching the Sun set over a calm ocean, you start a stopwatch just as the

top of the Sun disappears. You then stand, elevating your eyes by a height H = 1.70 m, and stop the watch when the top of the Sun again disappears. If the elapsed time is t = 11.1 s, what is the radius r of Earth?

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Yuri [45] · Answer 1 · 2022-04-05T14:17:36+03:00

Yuri [45]3 years ago

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Ans: Let d is the distance from height to our eyes.

<span>Applying the Pythagoras theorem, we get,</span>

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