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Suppose that, while lying down on a beach near the equator watching the sun set, you start a stopwatch the instant the top of the sun disappears and stand up. Your eyes are now at H=1.70m. You stop the stopwatch when the top of the sun disappears again. If the elapsed time is t=11.1 secs, what is the radius r of the earth?

 
 Jan 14, 2016

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