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Message started by Winbag4 on 03/15/20 at 21:43:32

Title: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Winbag4 on 03/15/20 at 21:43:32
So a while back I did a paper on a technical topic of my choosing. I calculated the distance to the sun on Luigi Circuit and its effect on the climate of the course.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xyR9BFnOSZAgDV79J5piyudnGBRT12IF/view?usp=sharing

I turned this in for an actual grade (and did a full presentation for an audience) and got an A lmao

Enjoy

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Mango Man on 03/16/20 at 03:22:23
What a read!
Fantastic job!
Magnificent!

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Vega on 03/16/20 at 04:58:16
Pretty neat.

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by ZedR on 03/16/20 at 05:12:19
Meanwhile I am eating Doritos

nice job  [smiley=lurk.gif]

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Master Kek on 03/16/20 at 07:41:05
Dude, you're a genius

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Shock on 03/16/20 at 07:52:22
That's an A+ from me. I may be wrong, but I didn't see a vertical component of distance computed, but I don't think it would have changed your end numbers too much as the sun doesn't look that high in the sky. Still would've been amusing to compute the temperatures at different times of the day (sun directly overhead etc.) :P

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by KingAlex on 03/16/20 at 12:04:52
^yep, still cool regardless. Nice job. It'd probably be possible to get a vertical measurement with moon jump somehow (or some TAS tool, no idea what these guys use these days).

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Winbag4 on 03/16/20 at 16:42:13

59565C4152544D565C5D5D56380 wrote:
That's an A+ from me. I may be wrong, but I didn't see a vertical component of distance computed, but I don't think it would have changed your end numbers too much as the sun doesn't look that high in the sky. Still would've been amusing to compute the temperatures at different times of the day (sun directly overhead etc.) :P


Thanks!

And yeah I considered it negligible. It looks to be about 15° or so which would give an error of less than five percent, but it's difficult to get an accurate measurement on that. And it would be neat to calculate the hottest and coldest temps, since the equations I used only estimate the average temps of a particular location. I'm not quite sure how to go about that, but I would guess that it would change by roughly the same percentage of an average day on Earth.

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 03/16/20 at 19:16:24

150B0C00030556620 wrote:
[quote author=59565C4152544D565C5D5D56380 link=1584337412/0#5 date=1584373942]That's an A+ from me. I may be wrong, but I didn't see a vertical component of distance computed, but I don't think it would have changed your end numbers too much as the sun doesn't look that high in the sky. Still would've been amusing to compute the temperatures at different times of the day (sun directly overhead etc.) :P


Thanks!

And yeah I considered it negligible. It looks to be about 15° or so which would give an error of less than five percent, but it's difficult to get an accurate measurement on that. And it would be neat to calculate the hottest and coldest temps, since the equations I used only estimate the average temps of a particular location. I'm not quite sure how to go about that, but I would guess that it would change by roughly the same percentage of an average day on Earth. [/quote]
Not sure if it would be useful in any capacity but remember that the credits uses Luigi Circuit at sunset with I think similar camera angles to the track intro before a VS race

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Bossy on 04/11/20 at 11:00:35
I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Mango Man on 04/12/20 at 03:23:46

48657979730A0 wrote:
I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol

Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Bossy on 04/15/20 at 14:23:16

2D2827223C3A490 wrote:
[quote author=48657979730A0 link=1584337412/0#9 date=1586631635]I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol

Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing[/quote]

Still like...the sun on LC? why lol

Title: Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Post by Mango Man on 04/18/20 at 07:07:57

78554949433A0 wrote:
[quote author=2D2827223C3A490 link=1584337412/0#10 date=1586690626][quote author=48657979730A0 link=1584337412/0#9 date=1586631635]I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol

Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing[/quote]

Still like...the sun on LC? why lol[/quote]


2D2827223C3A490 wrote:
[quote author=48657979730A0 link=1584337412/0#9 date=1586631635]I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol

Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing[/quote]

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