The Appointment – Angle of the Sun
Got
a Light
There had been a confrontation at the doctors,
I had entered the cabin with a headache that wouldn’t go away, he was a tall
guy, slim and with a very amiable antiseptic demeanour, he wore specs that rode
on his nose whenever he started to speak and wore a suit and tie. I hadn’t shaven in two days, this dull throb
hadn’t gone away even after I had popped in some Aspirin, which was my regular
course of action.
It had all begun a week back, I had been
playing rugby in the army field with a few soldiers and had been knocked down
on the 5 yard line by a large guy with smirk on his face
and after bulldozing me over he had made
beeline straight for the pits, “Good Job,” the coach had praised him, and I had
realised that they had been tracking me on the field, I was a good runner and
they had spotted a threat immediately.
After that fall there had been a dull pain in
my head, the sought that is constant enough to be noticeable and two days into it,
I had gone to the hospital to meet Dr Ryan.
The appointment had been fixed the previous day by Deanna and I had taken
a train to the city hall and then walked over from the station to the
government hospital.
Under his amiable veneer there was a shrewd mind, it taken me half hour into the conversation to realise that he had during this time been scribbling notes to cut my personality down into pieces. I pieced up everything he had told me when he suddenly stopped me midway into my sentence and said, “You have to stop your cigarettes.” I stared at him and started to tell him a story about my youth when Deanna and I had handled a couple of packs a day.
“These cigarettes do you no good, Mr Murphy,”
he repeated with an ominous pause.
“Mind if I smoke?” I asked him, instantly angry,
I hated ominously loaded statements.
“No,” he responded stunned.
I picked out one from the pack in my front
pocket, I could see the traffic in the window behind him, it was a ground floor
clinic and it was humming.
“You know what I do with people who give me bad
advice,” I asked softly, my mind had receded into a shell to keep the anger at
bay.
“What?”
I had leant forward and blown a blast on his
face, he had started to cough, “Mr Murphy, please leave,” his voice was raspy
with the thick smoke on his face.
I had calmly got up with my file and walked
out, repeating over my shoulder, “I am not going to pay for this advice.”
“Sooner or Later, Respect becomes a Two Way Street.”
Angle of the
Light
As a first step towards a DIY Solar Power System for your house,
identify as shown in the diagram
1. Begin by identifying a small in
height object which is easily accessible, like a pole.
2.Measure the height of the pole in
daylight (a)
3. Measure the height of the shadow (b)
4.Remember the shadow will vary
according to the time of day
5.Next divide a/b as shown in the diagram below
6. This will give you the tangent
7. Use trigonometry to get the angle or
use a scientific calculator
Compare the angle of the Sun during different seasons of
The above measurements are all part of the preparation to
installing a Solar PV system in your house to generate electricity.
We have handled all points in the Table as above and as is obvious the other points are easy to handle, to
get the yearly temperature use a standard thermometer year round to plot a
graph.
“All Experiments Begin with Empirical Thought”
