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    A sundial uses a gnomon (stick or rod) to cast a shadow onto a flat surface marked with hour lines, allowing the time to be read based on the position of the sun's shadow. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow aligns with different hour lines. For the sundial to tell accurate time, the gnomon must point north and its angle must match the sundial's latitude. Different types of sundials exist, including horizontal, vertical, and equatorial designs, and parts include the gnomon, base, and dial plate with hour lines.

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    this is assignment on sundial for solving the problem accour during the installing the sundial in your location

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    A sundial uses a gnomon (stick or rod) to cast a shadow onto a flat surface marked with hour lines, allowing the time to be read based on the position of the sun's shadow. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow aligns with different hour lines. For the sundial to tell accurate time, the gnomon must point north and its angle must match the sundial's latitude. Different types of sundials exist, including horizontal, vertical, and equatorial designs, and parts include the gnomon, base, and dial plate with hour lines.

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    Assignment On Sundial

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    Saad Ur Rehman
    A sundial uses a gnomon (stick or rod) to cast a shadow onto a flat surface marked with hour lines, allowing the time to be read based on the position of the sun's shadow. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow aligns with different hour lines. For the sundial to tell accurate time, the gnomon must point north and its angle must match the sundial's latitude. Different types of sundials exist, including horizontal, vertical, and equatorial designs, and parts include the gnomon, base, and dial plate with hour lines.

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    Sundial: A sundial is a device that measures time by the position


    of the Sun. or The Sundial is a device that tells time by using
    a flat surface and a long stick called a gnomon to turn the
    sun's reflection into a shadow that corresponds to a
    particular marking.
    How does a sundial work: A sundial is in
    essence simply any form of stick - known as a style or
    gnomon - which casts a shadow. The position of the
    shadow can then be used to determine the current solar
    time. In horizontal sundial, the Sun casts a shadow from
    the gnomon, which is a thin rod straight edge, onto a flat
    surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day.
    The shadow cast by the end of the gnomon is the solar
    time at all times. As the Sun moves across the sky, the
    shadow of the gnomon's edge progressively aligns with
    different hour-lines on the plate. The shadows the sun
    casts move in a clockwise direction, Such designs rely on
    the gnomon that is aligned with the Earth's rotation axis.
    Hence, if such a sundial is to tell the correct time, the
    gnomon must point towards the true North and the
    gnomon's angle with the horizontal plane must be equal
    to the geographical latitude where the sundial is placed.
    During the day people saw that the shadow cast by a
    tree, a rock, or even their own body was long early in the
    morning and grew shorter and shorter until it almost
    disappeared when the Sun was in the middle of the day.
    They also would have noticed that the shadow grew
    longer again, on the other side of the tree, as night came.

    Different Types of Sundials

    Religious

    Horizontal

    Vertical

    Equatorial

    Spherical
    ,

    Part of A Sundial
    1. Gnomon
    2. Base
    3. Dial Plate
    4. Hour Line

    Calculation
    tan(0) =
    0= dial hour
    pm noon
    H= hour angle
    hour you are
    L= latitude

    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6

    15
    30
    45
    60
    75
    90

    sin(L).tan(H)
    angle measure from 12
    ,the hour angle is the
    working out time 15

    How to Read the Shadow of Sundial

    8:00
    8:30AM

    AM

    12:00AM

    9:45AM

    6:00AM

    4:00AM

    THE END

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