The period of rotation of Venus is 243 days while its period of
revolution is 225 days.
1. One day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?
2. If Venus's direction of rotation was the same as its direction of
revolution, then one day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?

The period of rotation of Venus is 243 days while its period of
revolution is 225 days.
1.One day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?
2. If Venus's direction of rotation was the same as its direction of
revolution, then one day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?

I think both answers are 243 days. I suppose whatever the direction of
rotation is, the period of rotation doesn't change. Am I correct?

The period of rotation of Venus is 243 days while its period of
revolution is 225 days.
1.One day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?
2. If Venus's direction of rotation was the same as its direction of
revolution, then one day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?

I think both answers are 243 days. I suppose whatever the direction of
rotation is, the period of rotation doesn't change. Am I correct?

The period of rotation of Venus is 243 days while its period of
revolution is 225 days.
1.One day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?
2. If Venus's direction of rotation was the same as its direction of
revolution, then one day on Venus amounts to how many days on Earth?

I think both answers are 243 days. I suppose whatever the direction of
rotation is, the period of rotation doesn't change. Am I correct?

The best way to learn something is to try and teach it.

She wants help to do her homework, Oriel, and you give her this. I guess
you could make the point that she needs to slog through your cueiform
writing to truely understand. But just remember, truely intelligent people
don't have to make themselves difficult to understand. The best way to learn
something is to try and teach it. The best way to teach is to simplify, not
obfuscate. Challenge yourself to make what you feel is complicated, simpler.
It is.

Dave

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach teachers.

:-)

DaveYou lousy freaks teach that the Earth rotates through 360 degrees in
23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds when nothing supports such a
correlation between clocks and axial rotation.

The best way to learn something is to try and teach it.

I wouldn't want to be a pupil of such a teacher. After all, isn't the
teacher supposed to already know what he's teaching?

On Jan 29, 4:32 am, "oriel36" <geraldkelle...@yahoo.com> wrote:

DaveYou lousy freaks teach that the Earth rotates through 360 degrees in
23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds when nothing supports such a
correlation between clocks and axial rotation.We teach that because it does. The only other possible conclusion
that one can come to is that the entire universe revolves around the
earth (or the solar system) once a year. There is no other possible
conclusion, and only those who are misguided, blind, stuipd, or insane
think otherwise -- Including you.

You need help, oriel. Either you are wrong, or the entire world is
wrong. I'm betting on you, and I am not a gambling man.

Austin

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:42:24 GMT, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
The best way to learn something is to try and teach it.

I wouldn't want to be a pupil of such a teacher. After all, isn't the
teacher supposed to already know what he's teaching?Teaching something forces you to learn it with a sort of depth you may
never achieve otherwise. It isn't a question of not knowing what you are
going to teach; teaching enhances the teacher's knowledge as well as the
student's.

Put a little differently, teaching a subject forces you to parse it
intellectually in quite a different way than simply using it does.

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatoryhttp://www.cloudbait.com

On Jan 29, 2:29 pm, "AustinMN" <tacooper...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 29, 4:32 am, "oriel36" <geraldkelle...@yahoo.com> wrote:

DaveYou lousy freaks teach that the Earth rotates through 360 degrees in
23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds when nothing supports such a
correlation between clocks and axial rotation.

We teach that because it does. The only other possible conclusion
that one can come to is that the entire universe revolves around the
earth (or the solar system) once a year. There is no other possible
conclusion, and only those who are misguided, blind, stuipd, or insane
think otherwise -- Including you.

You need help, oriel. Either you are wrong, or the entire world is
wrong. I'm betting on you, and I am not a gambling man.

Austin

Most people on the planet already know that the correlation between
clocks and axial rotation is 24 hours through 360 degrees or 15
degrees per hour,

what they do not know is how it came to be this way
and that is fine, a little effort to understand the two step process
with the Equation of Time as the connecting principles makes it a joy
to behold.

Our pre-heiocentric astronomical ancestors knew that the Total length
of a day ,do you hear,the Total length of the natural day as gauged
from noon is unequal. They devised a noon correction,now known as the
Equation of Time, to equalise the natural variations to an equable 24
hour day.The correction also keeps one 24 hour day elapsing seamlessly
into the next 24 hour day

That is the first step in a two step process.Now the next step.

Copernicus used the faster orbitral motion of the Earth to explain the
observed behavior of the outer planets as their slower forward motion
appears to make them fall behind temporarily -

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0112/JuSa2000_tezel.gif

This allowed the heliocentric astronomers to appreciate that the daily
cycle was due to axial rotation. They then adapted the existing
Equation of Time correction which creates the 24 hour day to the idea
that if you correlate geographical longitudes with this 24 hour day in
terms of 4 minutes for each degree of seperation, you can determine
location by working off the principle that axial rotation and clocks
are always in sync.

The Equation of Time correction which keeps one 24 hour day elapsing
into the next 24 hour day also maintains the correlation between
clocks and axial rotation,

it does not need an external reference

So,who will teach the teachers because if you get the basic
relationship between axial and orbital motion wrong,and I assure you
that you have through the sidereal justification,you can forget about
getting humanity to appreciate astronomy which in turn is needed to
appreciate climatology,geology and basically all phenomena of this
majestic planet.