Why is the difference between each meridian of longitude is 4 time? explain.
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Answer:
The earth has 360 imaginary lines called longitude or meridians running vertically between the poles. Each of this are called the degree. So the time difference between each longitude in 4 mins.
Answer:
The earth has 360 imaginary lines called longitude or meridians running vertically between the poles. Each of this are called the degree. So the time difference between each longitude in 4 mins
Explanation:
The Earth rotates once a day, so that’s 360 degrees (the number of degrees in a circle) in 24 hours. If you do the math, that’s 360/24 = 15 degrees per hour. Each time zone is of course one hour, so there are 24 time zones of 15 degrees each.
The question is asking about minutes instead of hours, so we need to think of each time zone as having 15 degrees in 60 minutes. To solve for 1 degree, we divide 60 minutes by 15 degrees, so 60/15 = 4. In other words, it takes 4 minutes for each degree of the Earth’s surface to rotate past a fixed point in space.