Solar Rotation Activity, Part 1




The purpose of this worksheet is to get you to carefully think out a method you could use to determine the rotational period of the Sun. Try to answer the questions just as you would answer a classmate who asked them -- it's okay to be informal, but please be descriptive, and draw pictures if it helps you make your point.

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1. What measurments would you need to make to calculate the rotational period?







2. How would you make these measurements?







3. How would you compute the rotational period using these measurements? (for example, multiply this by that and so on.)







4. Explain why this computation really gives the rotational period.