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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Watch as a compass, school science project

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Hold a watch horizontally, with the hour hand pointingdirectly to the sun. If you halve the distance between the hour hand and the 12 with a match, the end of the matchpoints directly to the south. In 24 hours the sun ‘moves’, because of the earth’s rotation, once around the earth. But the hour hand of the watch goes