Who is responsible for the first recorded rainfall measurements? Describe the technique used to obtain these measurements.
Solution:
The first recording was obtained in the seventeenth century by Perrault. He obtained his data by comparing measured rainfall to the estimated flow in the Seine River to show how the two were related
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A farmer wants to fence off his four-sided plot of flat land. He measures the first three sides, shown as A, B, and C in Figure 3.60, and then correctly calculates the length and orientation of the fourth side D. What is his result?
Solution:
For the four-sided plot to be closed, the resultant displacement of the four sides should be zero. The sum of the horizontal components should be zero, and the sum of the vertical components should also be equal to zero.
We need to solve for the components of each vector. Take into consideration that rightward and upward components are positive, while the reverse is negative.
You fly 32.0 km in a straight line in still air in the direction 35.0º south of west. (a) Find the distances you would have to fly straight south and then straight west to arrive at the same point. (This determination is equivalent to finding the components of the displacement along the south and west directions.) (b) Find the distances you would have to fly first in a direction 45.0º south of west and then in a direction 45.0º west of north. These are the components of the displacement along a different set of axes—one rotated 45º.
Solution:
Part A
Consider the illustration shown.
The south and west components of the 32.0 km distance are denoted by DSand DW, respectively. The values of these components are solved below:
Consider the new set of axes (X-Y) as shown below. This new set of axes is rotated 45° from the original axes. Thus, axis X is 45° south of west, and axis Y is 45° west of north. First, we can obviously see that θ has a value of 10°.
Therefore, the components of the 32.0 km distance along X and Y axes are:
A new landowner has a triangular piece of flat land she wishes to fence. Starting at the west corner, she measures the first side to be 80.0 m long and the next to be 105 m. These sides are represented as displacement vectors A from B in Figure 3.59. She then correctly calculates the length and orientation of the third side C. What is her result?
Solution:
Consider the illustration shown.
We need to solve for an interior angle of the triangle. So, we need to solve for the value of α first. This can be done by simply subtracting the sum of 21 and 11 degrees from 90 degrees.
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