We all know that in summers days are longer and nights are shorter. So let's apply a little geometry to calculate the hours of daylight in a complete day.
Let the percentage of hours of daylight out of total hours in a complete day be . What is the value of ?
Details and Assumptions
We are talking about the day of summer solstice in Jaipur.
The latitude of jaipur is
The tilt of the earth's axis
Assume earth to be perfectly spherical, ceteris paribus.
Use of scientific calculator is advised for the calculations to get the right accuracy.
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Let Earth's axis be the z-axis and the Sun is in the direction of x-axis. On summer solstice day, The line joining the centers of the Earth and Sum is normal to the Tropic of Cancer at 2 3 . 5 o N . Looking along the y-axis, we see the day-night line is at an angle of 2 3 . 5 o with the z-axis and Jaipur at 2 7 o N has more daylight than night.
Still looking along the y-axis, let the extra distance into daylight along the x-axis at 2 7 o N be a . And if the Earth's radius is R then:
a = R sin 2 7 o tan 2 3 . 5 o
The 2 7 o N circle has a radius r = R cos 2 7 o . And if the angle of the arc in night darkness is θ , we note that:
a = r cos 2 θ = R cos 2 7 o cos 2 θ
⇒ cos 2 θ = tan 2 7 o tan 2 3 . 5 o = 0 . 5 0 9 5 2 5 4 4 9 × 0 . 4 3 4 8 1 2 3 7 5 = 0 . 2 2 1 5 4 7 9 7 1
⇒ 2 θ = cos − 1 0 . 2 2 1 5 4 7 9 7 1 = 7 7 . 2 0 0 0 3 0 9 5 o ⇒ θ = 1 5 4 . 4 0 0 0 6 1 9 o
Therefore, the percentage of daylight,
x = 1 0 0 ( 1 − 3 6 0 o θ ) = 1 0 0 ( 1 − 3 6 0 o 1 5 4 . 4 0 0 0 6 1 9 o ) = 5 7 . 1 1 1 0 9 3 9 1 %
The required answer ⌊ 1 0 x − 5 0 0 ⌋ = ⌊ 5 7 1 . 1 1 0 9 3 9 1 − 5 0 0 ⌋ = 7 1