Question 13. Make 2 observations and 1 conclusion about the placement of time zo

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Question 13. Make 2 observations and 1 conclusion about the placement of time zones in other regions of the Earth. Be specific in your examples. Question 14 Describe how you would shift your watch or clock as you travel east, or west across a time zone boundary. Question 15 I am in New York and hop on a plane to Los Angeles at 4pm. The expected in flight travel time gate to gate is approximately 6 hours. Accounting for Earths rotation rate, calculated above, and time zone changes what time should I tell my grandma Dorothy to pick me up, especially since she doesn’t have a smart phone and will need to circle the airport until she finds me. A. Show how you calculated your pick up time (include values & units). B. Explain your calculations.

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Que 13) Weather observations around the world (including surface, radar, and other observations) are always taken with respect to a standard time. By convention, the world's weather communities use a twenty four hour clock, similar to "military" time based on the 0° longitude meridian, also known as the Greenwich meridian.

However, you need to know what happens during daylight saving time in the United States. In short, the local time is advanced one hour during daylight saving time. As an example, the Eastern Time zone difference from UTC is -4 hours during daylight saving time rather than -5 hours as it is during standard time.

Que 14) The earth is moving on its axis at the rate of 460 metres per sec or 1000 miles per hour so When traveling west, you subtract one hour when you enter a new time zone. Conversely, for every time zone boundary you cross going east, you add one hour. Because Earth is round, if you continue to travel in one direction, you will eventually return to your starting point, and you would have set your watch forward or backward a full day.

Que 15) newyork is at western side from losangeles, now traveling from newyork to losangeles means west to east, the total distance is roughly 3000 miles, and flight duration is 6 hrs, so if a flight runs at 4pm from newyork it will reach at losangeles after 6 hrs. The time there will be 7pm , because earth is rotation towards east at the rate of 1000 miles per hour roughly, so the total distance here is 3000 miles so we have to substract 3 hours from the total traveling period with respect to time zone boundry, so you have to tell your grand ma to pick you up from airport at around 7pm.

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