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Measuring the solar system with crude apparatus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

George Tyson
George Tyson*
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7 Crescent Court, London SW4
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Extract

It is an interesting exercise for a lower sixth form to investigate how muchquantitative information about the solar system can be obtained using crude apparatus, which means objects such as sticks, stones, string, coins. For the sake of saving time the concept is extended to include a ruler (which is only a graduated stick, the unit being arbitrary) and a watch (which could be replaced by keeping up continued observation of a simple pendulum).

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 70 , Issue 453 , October 1986 , pp. 206 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1986

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