Designing, Making and Testing a Sundial
Introduction:
The sundial is the oldest know device for measuring time. The first
confirmed uses of it where by the Babylonians in around 2000BC.
However it is safe to say that shadows have been used as a rough
measure of time ever since primitive man discovered that as the day
progresses the shadows of trees and rocks get shorter and then longer
again.
The sundials used by the Babylonians were hollow half spheres, set
with edges flat and with a small bead at the centre. As the day wore
on the shadow of the bead followed a circular arc, which is divided
into 12 "temporary hours" (they changed through the seasons).
A modern sundial consists of a plane (dial face) and the gnomon
(style). The dial face is divided into hours and the gnomon is the
flat piece of metal, or stick in the dials centre, it points towards
the North Pole (in the northern hemisphere) or South Pole (in the
southern hemisphere). The gnomon must tilt at the angle of the
latitude at the location.
Although a sundial seems like a simple device for measuring time, it
is not. One cannot simply look at the shadow and find the time.
Firstly the sundial will show local time, not GMT. Secondly we must
allow for the 'equation of time.' Because the Earth's orbit is not
circular, its velocity changes at the perihelion. To allow for this
would be awkward, so we use a 'mean sun.' The equation only rises as
high as 16 minutes. It is the same every year, and on 4 dates it
becomes 0.
A minus sign indicates that the clock is ahead of the sun, a plus that
it is behind the sun.
Clock time = (sundial time) - (equation of time)
For example: Sundial time = 10:00am
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Date= January 9th
Equation of time= -7
Clock time = (sundial time) - (equation of time)
= 10:00 - (-7)
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