{"id":121264,"date":"2022-10-01T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T09:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=121264"},"modified":"2022-10-01T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T09:25:07","slug":"the-moon-is-observed-from-two-diametrically-opposite-points-a-and-b-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-moon-is-observed-from-two-diametrically-opposite-points-a-and-b-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The moon is observed from two diametrically opposite points A and B on earth. The angle \u03b8 subtended at the moon by the two directions of observation is 1\u00b054\u2032; given that the diameter of the earth to be about 1.276\u00d7107m. Compute the distance of the moon from the earth."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q. The moon is observed from two diametrically opposite points A and B on earth. The angle \u03b8 subtended at the moon by the two directions of observation is 1\u00b054\u2032; given that the diameter of the earth to be about 1.276\u00d7107m. Compute the distance of the moon from the earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"A\"><li>4.5x 10<sup>9<\/sup> m<\/li><li>3.83 x10<sup>8<\/sup> m<\/li><li>2.5 x 10<sup>4<\/sup> m<\/li><li>4 x10<sup>7<\/sup> m<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer: 3.83 x108 m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. The moon is observed from two diametrically opposite points A and B on earth. The angle \u03b8 subtended at the moon by the two directions of observation is 1\u00b054\u2032; given that the diameter of the earth to be about 1.276\u00d7107m. Compute the distance of the moon from the earth. 4.5x 109 m 3.83 x108 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":121265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4968],"tags":[4969],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-121264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unit-and-measurement-mcqs","tag-unit-and-measurement-mcqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121266,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264\/revisions\/121266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121264"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=121264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}