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Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Cancer is a major circle of latitude located at 23.5 degrees north of the equator. It marks the northernmost point on where the Sun shines directly overhead during the June solstice.
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Which capital city is nearest to tropic of cancer in India?
Sonipat to the north, Bahadurgar to the west
The tropics are defined as the area between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, each of which lies 23.5° of latitude away from the equator. This is the part of the Earth where the sun is capable of passing directly overhead at least once per year; it is also on average the warmest region of the planet.
Common sense says that since this covers a span of 47 degrees, and there are 180 total degrees of latitude, this area must be around 1/4 (47/180, or 26%) of the total surface of the Earth.
This is a vast underestimate, which has to do with how the surface of a sphere is actually calculated. Without going into the math -- if you're interested, please see the attached link -- it turns out that because this band encompasses the widest part of the globe, it actually turns out to be just under 2/5, or a whopping 40%, of the surface area of the entire planet!
If you take the sine of 23.5 and multiply it by 100, you get 39.9.
Note that this total includes land and water areas together; I'll leave it to some other enterprising scholar to calculate the percentage of the land area which currently lies in the tropical region. However, by coincidence, 40% of the world's population currently lives in the tropics; although this number is forecast to rise substantially by the end of the century.
Unit of longitude and latitude measurement?
Latitude and longitude are angles. So any unit of angle will work.
Examples include radians, grads, degrees, etc.
Mostly on account of seafaring tradition and the history of navigation, these
coordinates are still almost always listed and stated in degrees (and fractions
of degrees, like decimals, or minutes and seconds).
What are the differneces in the sunlight at tropic of cancer tropic of capicorn and the ples?
Tropic of cancer is the northerly circle of latitude on the Earth. Tropic of Capricorn is one of the five parts of the circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.
What is the altitude of polaris above the horizon at the tropic of cancer?
Polaris will be 23.5 degrees above the northern horizon when viewed from the Tropic of Cancer.
What did American leaders learn learn at kasserine pass in North Africa?
They needed aggressive officers and troops that were better trained.
Which line is farther north the Tropic of Capricorn or the Tropic of Cancer?
The Tropic of Cancer is north of the equator, near the parallel of latitude 23.5° N. The Tropic of Capricorn is south of the equator, near the parallel 23.5°S.
So the Tropic of Cancer is farther north!The tropic of cancer passes through what large North American country?
The Tropic of Cancer (approximately 23.5° N latitude) passes through the countries of Mexico and the Bahamas.
How does the time of a place depend on its longitude?
Everything on earth at all places is happening at the same "time" no matter what the clocks say. However, it is convention to have "time zones" where the clocks are adjusted to show 12 noon when the sun is appriximately South (more accurately where what is south faces the sun). That means that as the earth spins on its axis different longitudes face the sun at a rate of 15 degrees of longitude pass facing the sun every hour. For convenience this line often deviates in places to follow national borders, but basically that is what is happening.
Are the sun's rays vertical at the Tropic of Cancer during the summer solstice?
That happens on June 21.
It's the Summer Solstice for the northern Hemisphere, but it's the beginning of Winter in the southern Hemisphere.
The moon's orbit is inclined about 51/2° to the plane of the ecliptic, which in turn is inclined
about 231/2° to the equator.
If you're sitting at 45° north latitude, then the celestial equator is 45° above your southern
horizon. The ecliptic can be as much as 231/2° higher, and the moon as much as 51/2°
higher than that, for a grand total of about 74°above your southern horizon, max, when
"the stars and the planets are in favorable alignment" so to speak. (sorry)
When the tropic of cancer receives the direct rays of the sun is called the?
You must mean: "When the tropic of Cancer recieves the rays of the sun at a 90 degrees angle". We call that the Equinox.
What are the parallels halfway between the equator and the poles?
The latitudes half way between the equator and poles are at 60 N & S At these latitudes the circumference is half of that at the equator.
The Earth's circumference at the Equator is approx. 24,000 miles. At latitudes 60 N & S the circumference is 12,000 miles.
At the poles N & S, latitude 90 N & S, the circumference is '0' (zero) ; a dot point.
Taking an angular value for half way at 45 o N & S , the circumference is approximately 17,000 miles.
Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean with the geographic coordinates 21°3N, 80°00W.
How is longitude a function of time?
Every 15 degrees of longitude correspond to an hour of time. The sun will rise and set 1 hour earlier or later at 15 degree intervals. Time zones occur approximately every 15 degrees to compensate for this.
The Tropic of Cancer crosses the Sahara Desert.
Is Georgetown the capital on the tropic of cancer?
No, the capital of Guyana is only about 7 degrees north of the equator.
The national capital closest to the Tropic of Cancer is likely Havana, Cuba (slightly south).
Are areas between the tropics and polar regions called equinoxes?
No. Equinoxes are something totally different. The area between the tropics and polar regions are known as temperate regions.
Name at least five contries that the tropic of cancer passes through?
Mexico, Egypt, Oman, India and China
What is in between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
Roughly 47 degrees of latitude including the equator. This also defines the region on earth known as "The Tropics".
