Clock angle problems are a type of mathematical problem which involve finding the angle between the hands of an analog clock. Clock angle problems relate...
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Central angle Clock angle problem Decimal degrees Dihedral angle Exterior angle theorem Golden angle Great circle distance Horn angle Inscribed angle Irrational...
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observes the angle made by the intersection of the line of sight to the longitudinal axis, the dimension of length, of the vessel, using the clock analogy...
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90384°W / 31.44841; -104.90384 The Clock of the Long Now, also called the 10,000-year clock, is a mechanical clock under construction that is designed...
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Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American retired professional wrestler and amateur wrestler. He first earned recognition for winning a...
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A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it...
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Sundial (redirect from Solar clock)
using the angle of the sun. The people of Kush created sun dials through geometry. The Roman writer Vitruvius lists dials and shadow clocks known at that...
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Bearing (navigation) (redirect from Bearing angle)
bearing or azimuth is the horizontal angle between the direction of an object and north or another object. The angle value can be specified in various angular...
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Azimuth (redirect from Angle of azimuth)
Clock position Course (navigation) Inclination Longitude Latitude Magnetic declination Panning (camera) Relative bearing Sextant Solar azimuth angle Sound...
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Daylight saving time (redirect from Year 2007 problem)
practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation...
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Marine chronometer (redirect from Longitude clock)
an unsolved problem due to the difficulty in calculating longitude. Navigators could determine their latitude by measuring the sun's angle at noon (i.e...
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Time dilation (redirect from Clock hypothesis)
relative to the resting frame of the clock (right part of diagram), the light pulse is seen as tracing out a longer, angled path 2D. Keeping the speed of light...
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Verge escapement (section Verge and foliot clocks)
earliest known type of mechanical escapement, the mechanism in a mechanical clock that controls its rate by allowing the gear train to advance at regular...
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John Harrison (section Longitude problem)
the reference place. Harrison set out to solve the problem directly, by producing a reliable clock that could keep the time of the reference place accurately...
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_{1}} the angle of rotation for axle 1 γ 2 {\displaystyle \gamma _{2}} the angle of rotation for axle 2 β {\displaystyle \beta } the bend angle of the joint...
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Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth (section Angle to the Sun at different locations)
Earth's orbit, and its tilt. The differences in clock time between cities was not generally a problem until the advent of railroad travel in the 1800s...
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Escapement (redirect from Hipp clock)
watches and clocks that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands. The...
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Tautochrone curve (redirect from Tautochrone problem)
8r} . The simplest solution to the tautochrone problem is to note a direct relation between the angle of an incline and the gravity felt by a particle...
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History of longitude (redirect from Longitude problem)
is the same at both locations, so the longitude problem reduces to finding a way to coordinate clocks at distant places. Early approaches used astronomical...
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Pendulum (redirect from Sympathy of Clocks)
grandfather clock whose pendulum has a swing of 6° and thus an amplitude of 3° (0.05 radians), the difference between the true period and the small angle approximation...
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{\displaystyle F} . In the clock analogy, this situation corresponds to the two hands turning at the same speed, so that the angle between them is constant...
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clocks as running slower than her own. But during the turnaround (i.e. between the bold blue lines in the figure), a shift takes place in the angle of...
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Phase-locked loop (section Phase angle reference)
input frequency. These properties are used for clock synchronization, demodulation, frequency synthesis, clock multipliers, and signal recovery from a noisy...
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solar time from local mean time when this time-difference is related to angle at the rate of 15° per hour, i.e., 360° in 24 h. This width of the analemma...
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degrees it will be 14:00 exactly. The problem is that in September the Sun takes less time (as measured by an accurate clock) to make an apparent revolution...
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solar time can be obtained by measurement of the current position (hour angle) of the Sun, as indicated (with limited accuracy) by a sundial. Mean solar...
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List of measuring instruments (redirect from Angle measurement)
usual measuring instruments for time are clocks and watches. For highly accurate measurement of time an atomic clock is used. Stopwatches are also used to...
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Incremental encoder (section Clock synchronization)
logic which is paced by a clock signal. However, the incoming encoder signals are asynchronous with respect to the interface clock because their timing is...
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exerts a torque in the opposite direction, proportional to the amount (angle) it is twisted. There are various types: A torsion bar is a straight bar...
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calculation. The longitude problem took centuries to solve and was dependent on the construction of a non-pendulum clock (as pendulum clocks cannot function accurately...
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