Monday, February 3, 2014

Determining the Sun Trajectory

On January 27, 2014 I took down calculations of where the suns shadow fell, the length of it, and the height of the instrument I used to measure it.  In this lab I learned exactly where the sun would fall at a certain time of day and how big of a shadow it can make at different times.  I have created both a table and took a screen shot of the sun at 12 using SunCalc.net.




Time of Day
Height of Pencil
Length of Shadow
Shadow
8:00 a.m.
7.5 inch
21 inch
West
10:00 a.m.
7.5 inch
5 inch
Northwest
12:00 a.m.
7.5 inch
1.5 inch
North
2:30 a.m.
7.5 inch
6 inch
Northeast
5:00 a.m.
7.5 inch
23 inch
East