Earth's orbit is an ellipse with eccentricity 0.0167. Thus, earth's distance from the sun and speed as it moves around the sun varies from day to day. This means that the length of the solar day is not constant through the year. Assume that earth's spin axis is normal to its orbital plane and find out the length of the shortest and the longest day. A day should be taken from noon to noon. Does this explain variation of length of the day during the year?

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Explanation-let m be the mass of the earth vp, va be the velocity of the earth at perigee and apogee respectively. Similarly wp and wa are angular velocities.

At perigee, r p 2 w p = r a 2 w a at apogee

If a is the semimajor axis of the earth's orbit then rp=a

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Physics NCERT Exemplar Solutions Class 11th Chapter Eight 2025

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