How many degrees if longitude does the sun appear to move each hour, if it moves 360 degrees in 24 hours?
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15 degrees.  If you look at timezones they pretty well match up with 15 degrees of longitude.
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Actually time is measured in multiples of 24.  It may have something to do with our angular measurement system.  The Earth rotates 360° every 24 hours.  Each hour represents 15° of angular rotation.  Each minute of time represents 15 minutes of angular rotation and each second of time represents 15 seconds of angular rotation.  As to where our time measurement system came from, I don't know, but it could probably be found out pretty easily by doing a few searches.\n\nCheck this link for books on the subject:\nhttp://books.google.com/books?q=origin+of+time+measurement&ots=V7_ssegXJ4&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title
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It doesn't. People wake up at different time all over the world, because the sun  rises to different time zones at different times. The sun doesn't "come up" but the world revolves and we see the sun at a certain interval, because the  Earth has reached that exact spot again.\n\n24 hours for the Earth to spin completly around 360 degrees to face the sun again. 365 days to go completly around the sun, meaning it spins 365 times to go around the sun once.\n\nWe should be dizzy as hell.
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It has to do with the direction the earth rotates on its axis. It rotates once every 24 hours. So, the direction it spins is the direction the sun passes by. The earth would have to completely stop and start to rotate in the opposite direction in order for the sun to rise in the west and set in the east. Hopefully that won't happen any time soon, because it would probably mess gravity all up.
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Every time zone is 1 hour apart\nbecause the earth is round
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Calculating it from Mapquest, I find it to be 40 degrees 41.35 minutes latitude (positive indicates North), -74 degrees 2.667 minutes longitude (negative indicates West).  Click on the source below, and zoom in.
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Compared to the stars the moon moves from west to east.\nIn 27.3 days it returns to it 'start star'.\nIn one night it moves (360 / 27.3) degrees.\nIn one night it moves 13,2 degrees from west to east compared to the stars.
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Even if the earth stops rotating,it will still be revolving around the sun and each area on the earth will be facing the sun once in a year.That is the sun will be over head once in a year in each place though at an angle from the horizon in some places.Thus one day and one night will approximately be  six months each.Accordingly weather condition may also change which will be anybody's  guess.
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Convert 36. 37° to degrees, minutes and seconds\n\n36 + .37(60) = 22.2\n\n36° 22' + .2(60) = 12\n\n36° 22' 12"\n\n- - - - - - - - - - -\n\nSec = 90° - A\n\n89 59 60\n36 22 12\n- - - - - - -\n\n53 37 48\n\nThe answer is sec 53° 37' 48"\n\n- - - - - - - -s-
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Lets see now, Earth rotates aproximately once every 24 hours, thats one over 60 x 60 X 24, thats one over 86400 rotations per second. All the time we are doing that, consider this, we are also going around the sun at aproximately 66500 miles per hour.
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Consider what happens every minute. In 60 minutes the big hand moves 360 degrees, so in 1 minute it moves 6 degrees clockwise. In 60 minutes the small hand moves 360/12 = 30 degrees, so in 1 minute it moves 0.5 degrees anticlockwise.\nThis means the hands are getting closer together at a rate of 6+0.5 = 6.5 degrees per minute.\nSo they will meet every 360/6.5 = 55.3846 minutes, approximately. So thats 00:55:23, 01:50:46, etc.\n\n[edit] nwordjim has it almost right below me, but for some reason he thinks a clock has 24 hours on it :) If you replace '24' by '12' everywhere, you end up with the same answer as me.
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It takes the Moon 27.322 days to go around the Earth once. Because of this motion, the Moon appears to move about 13° against the stars each day, or about one-half degree per hour. If you watch the Moon over the course of several hours one night, you will notice that its position among the stars will change by a few degrees.
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Earth rotates. Sun on one side.
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First of all i would like to say that you are some kind of good thinker.. well for 4 years old, this kind of question may too complex for you. But i try to answer it for our knowledge.\n\nWell the moon is not just go down when the sun is up. The world is rotating itself, while the world is rotating around the sun. In the same time, the moon is rotating around the earth and the sun. When you are at any part of the earth expecially near to the equator, you will see some kind of nice organized pattern of when sun is out, the moon is gone, otherwise vise versa. \n\nWell, actually this is not the true. The moon is still there rotating around the earth in 24 hour time, but when the part of the earth where get alots of sun shine, the brighness of the moon will dissphere like you shine a touch in a good shinine day. The light from the touch will not seen as in the dark. But we cannot say that the ligh is gone. The light is still there but, due to the brigher light of the sun (higher cendela - unit for light), the reflaction light of moon is not seen.\n\nThere are some infomation that i can help you. It's good to think!!!
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u might have heard abt latitudes. Sun light constantly falls on earth. as earth moves different past of earth receives light and this is what we term as day and night. Latitudes help in determining times and it takes 15mins for sun to pass from one latitide to another. In other words we have time zones ever heard of green whtch time zone. This way, time is calculated with respect to sunrise and sunset. \n\nThus its all depending on how sunlight reaches in ur region..!
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Dan's result seems extremely low and the reason is that when he converted metres to inches he divided instead of multiplying so his final answer needs to be multiplied by about 1600.\n\nI don't think the earth's rotational speed around its own axis is relevant. I am unclear which Dan has taken, this or the earth's orbital speed around the sun.\n\nIf the radius of the Earth's orbit is 93 million miles, then the circumference of the orbit (assuming a circle for simplicity) is 2 pi r or 6.28 x 93 x 10^6 miles. In a fortnight (14 days out of 365) the earth will travel 14/ 365 ths of that distance (ignoring leap years for simplicity) and with 8 furlongs to a mile, that is\n\n8 x 14/365 x 6,28 x 93 x 10^6 f per f\n\nFor an approximate result, say 93 divides into 365 4 times, and divide the 4 into the 8 to leave\n\n28 x 6,28 x 10^6 furlongs per fortnight\n\n= approx 1.75 x 10^8 furlongs/fortnight\n\nOf course the sun itself is moving at about ten miles a second in the direction of Alpha Herculis, but that too is irrelevant to the calculation as is the rotational velocity of the earth on its own axis.
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You can easily compute the Earth's angular speed by considering that the Earth makes little less than one complete round on itself in a day.\n\nThat "little less" accounts for the fact that, taking the Sun as reference, since in a year the Earth also makes a revolution around the Sun, that revolution adds up 1 day that shall not be counted.\n\nTherefore, the Eart's angular speed is 1-1/365 rounds/day.\nWhich is, in International Units: 1.154 x 10^(-5) rad/s.