Hello Everyone! I've sure been posting a lot this week...Ms. Jovanovich has kindly given us a lot of extra credit opportunities! :)
For this extra credit, I needed to keep track of the hours of daylight each day over the past two weeks. It was very interesting to see how it changed. Below is a table of my findings:
Date
|
Sunrise
|
Sunset
|
Hours of Daylight
|
12/1/11
|
6:54 AM
|
4:05 PM
|
9h 11m 5s
|
12/2/11
|
6:55 AM
|
4:05 PM
|
9h 09m 40s
|
12/3/11
|
6:56 AM
|
4:05 PM
|
9h 08m 18s
|
12/4/11
|
6:57 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
9h 07m 00s
|
12/5/11
|
6:58 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
9h 05m 46s
|
12/6/11
|
6:59 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
9h 04m 36s
|
12/7/11
|
7:00 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
9h 03m 30s
|
12/8/11
|
7:01 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
9h 02m 28s
|
12/9/11
|
7:02 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
9h 01m 30s
|
12/10/11
|
7:03 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
9h 00m 36s
|
12/11/11
|
7:04 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
8h 59m 47s
|
12/12/11
|
7:05 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
8h 59m 01s
|
12/13/11
|
7:06 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
8h 58m 21s
|
12/14/11
|
7:07 AM
|
4:04 PM
|
8h 57m 44s
|
After completing that, I needed to make a graph of my data:
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The y axis should be labeled the total hours of daylight, and the x axis should be labeled the number of day in December (it begins with December 1).
Hope you've learned a little bit about how daylight totals during the winter change! I've certainly learned a lot from this.
Have a good week! :)