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Scale-model capstone — Homework
Use the ratios: divide by about 110 for Earth's size, multiply by about 107 for the Earth-Sun distance.
- 1.A beach ball 40 cm across represents the Sun. About how big should the modeled Earth be?
- 2.Using that same 40 cm beach ball Sun, about how far away should Earth be placed?
- 3.Why must you use the same scale factor for both the size of Earth and the Earth-Sun distance in your model?
- 4.If you doubled the size of the object representing the Sun, what would happen to the modeled Earth-Sun distance?
- 5.Describe your planned scale model: what object represents the Sun, what its calculated Earth size and distance are, and where you would set it up.
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