What is the time difference between each degree of longitude?
What is the time difference between each degree of longitude?
(a) 2 minutes
(b) 11 minutes
(c) 4 minutes
(d) 8 minutes
- The Earth makes a 360-degree circle, and it makes a complete rotation in 24 hours, which is equal to 1440 minutes.
- To find the time shift for each degree, divide the total minutes by the number of degrees, which is 360. So, the time shift for each degree is 1440/360 = 4 minutes.