Notes and Study material for Exams
This topic has many practical application in day to day life. In engineering stage it is used in surveying. The basic purpose is to find the unknown variables by observing the angle of the line of sight. This is done by using some the fact that in a right angled triangle the ratio of … Read more
Pressure and wind belts Atmospheric Pressure, also called barometric pressure, force per unit area exerted by an atmospheric column (that is, the entire body of air above the specified area). Atmospheric pressure can be measured with a mercury barometer (hence the commonly used synonym barometric pressure), which indicates the height of a column … Read more
The following are some of the factors that influence temperature: Latitude: The Earth’s surface is not evenly heated by the sun. The sun’s rays are more direct at the equator than at the poles. This is because the Earth is a sphere, and the sun’s rays are spread out over a larger area at the … Read more
The subtopics for Temperature – Elements of Weather and Climate are: Absolute temperature Air temperature Average temperature Celsius scale Fahrenheit scale Kelvin scale Mean annual temperature Mean daily temperature Mean monthly temperature Mean temperature Temperature inversion Temperature range Temperature scale Thermometer Wet-bulb temperature Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles … Read more