 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1870 - 350 pages
...are they apart? 7. A flag pole 180 feet high casts a shadow 135 feet in length : what is the distance from the top of the pole to the end of the shadow? 8. A boy in flying his kite let out 240 feet of string, and the distance from where he stood to a point... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1877 - 828 pages
...overhead ; and if a pointed post were set exactly upright at true noon (supposed to occur at the moment of the vernal or autumnal equinox), the shadow of the...globe, the shadow of a pointed rod does not end in a well-defined point. The moment of true noon, which is not the same as ordinary or civil noon, never... | |
 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...overhead ; and if a pointed post were set exactly upright at true noon (supposed to occur at the moment of the vernal or autumnal equinox), the shadow of the...to the end of the shadow. But observations based on * Of course it may be argued that nothing in the world is the result of mere accident, and some may... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...overhead ; and if a pointed post were set exactly upright at true noon (supposed to occur at the moment of the vernal or autumnal equinox), the shadow of the post would be exactly half as long as n line drawn from the top of the pole to the end of the shadow. But observations based on this principle... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1878 - 498 pages
...overhead ; and if a pointed post were set exactly upright at true noon (supposed to occur at the moment of the vernal or autumnal equinox), the shadow of the...difficulties to the architects of the pyramid. The sun not 1 Of course it may be argued that nothing in the world is the result of mere accident, and some may... | |
 | Henry H. Hutton - Measurement - 1882 - 178 pages
...square yard? 125. A flag-pole 180 feet high casts a shadow 135 feet in length ; what is the distance from the top of the pole to the end of the shadow ? 126. The four walls of a room are each 16 feet in length and 9 feet in hight, and the ceil ing is... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 386 pages
...purpose. and if a pointed post were set exactly upright at true noon (supposed to occur at the moment of the vernal or autumnal equinox), the shadow of the...globe, the shadow of a pointed rod does not end in a well-defined point. The moment of true noon, which is not the same as ordinary or civil noon, never... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1883 - 358 pages
...purpose. and if a pointed post were set exactly upright at true noon (supposed to occur at the moment of the vernal or autumnal equinox), the shadow of the...from the top of the pole to the end of the shadow. Hut observations based on this principle would have presented many difficulties to the architects of... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1886 - 400 pages
...overhead ; and if a pointed post were set exactly upright at true noon (supposed to occur at the moment of the vernal or autumnal equinox), the shadow of the...principle would have presented many difficulties to the 1 Of course it may be argued that nothing in the world is the result of mere accident, and some may... | |
 | Charles Austin Hobbs - Arithmetic - 1889 - 366 pages
...find the base. 4. A flag-pole 140 ft. high casts a shadow 105 ft. in length ; what is the distance from the top of the pole to the end of the shadow ? 5. What is the length of a ladder that will just reach to the top of a house 12m high, when its foot... | |
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... and autumn. In latitude 30° north, the sun at noon in spring (or, to speak precisely, on the day of the vernal equinox) is just twice as far from the horizon as he is from the point vertically overhead ; and if a pointed post were set exactly upright... 
