I bought a compass today. I tested it at the store, multiple times, spinning all which ways. It would always immediately spin itself around to accurately point north..
It is one of those ball compasses like what's on the back of a survival knife.
As soon as I got home it stopped pointing...
It seems to me declination lines are vertical like longitude, and coordinates is measured horizontally (but if it runs vertical than how could it be measured as 0° at the equator?), and right ascension lines run horizontal like latitude with coordinates measured vertically.
However this...
This is not a homework question, but it is from a book...
The book asks:
In a nuclear chemistry experiment, an alpha particle is found to have a velocity of 14,285 m/s. Convert this measurement into miles/hour.
I want to verify the correct way to do this, and I also have a question about...