How to estimate the size of the sun.

[LovelyYTRocks]

How did earlier people find the distance between the Earth and the Sun?

[geekionizado]

Don't I need to transform 150.000.000km to mm?

[matthew2000tx]

Great, thanks for sharing!

[TimpBizkit]

I thought the diameter of the sun was 1,325,000km

[TheseEyesGod]

Excellent! Clear & well done. You don't talk over people's heads, nor do you talk down to us. You obviously ♥enjoy♥ what you're doing.

If everyone would do that, the world would be a blissful place. ♥♥♥ :>D

Thank you!

[doganaktas]

Being in Northern(or southern) hemisphere has virtually no effect while measuring the distance.

[eddyblak]

This guy sounds like Michael Moore.

[Dmme199]

You're awesome dude! 5/5!!

[Fryitonapanandstuff]

☄Simple and easy to understand. Thankyou.

[nathanbehar101]

Did you know that if you wanted to leave the suns gravity, you would have to be going at a speed of about 1.4 million miles an hour?

[Maartenn100]

These videos are one of the best tutorials with explanation I found on Youtube till now.

[sparker24]

how cud they ever think of this

[PsycheBlue]

Thank you so much. That was very clear.

[GlueSniffer4Life]

Science and math!

[AmauryRules]

Where were you internet when I was a kid?. Great work, Sir!.

[baineking]

Good stuff here. Glad someone is using their brains :)

[panganatty]

There is about 1 Million Earths that is able to hold in the volume of the Sun. At least that is what they determine. Amazing isn't it.

[c0mpumast3r]

Well anyways, there's only a minimal difference between the values of the two.

But I really love this video.

[c0mpumast3r]

With all due respect but ahmm I just have one question, and that is about side AC, is that correct that side AC is equal to 1 meter?Its because as you can see here, AC is the diagonal part of the smaller triangle and the one meter I think is from the point A to middle point of side BC, right?so, I was just thinking of some other values for side AC which is not 1 meter...right?

[ScienceOnline]

Yes, you are correct and it is important to note that AC is not exactly 1 meter, it is ~ 1.00001 m. I was attempting to keep the demonstration as simple as possible so I avoided using the distance A to the midpoint of BC.

As the equipment is very basic and we are estimating the distance to the sun, rounding AC to 1 meter is appropriate.

[zeratul575]

so i have determined something

math=history

history=math

english=latin

so if u can do this u can connect with history nathimeticans by replicating there ways and true for learning history so history and math is eqauls so if we add enlish and latin is the concept still true figure it out

[88Flashback]

OMG,my brain will be sore for weeks after this!! I earned a masters in science on YouTube in 11:53 min. flat!!

[stencil62]

I love smart people

[invunable]

That was quite cool how you found the size of the sun only by using some paper and a measuring stick.

I tried doing this myself but the math was too complicated for me! lol.

But still, great work, awesome video, I have subscribed to you, I hope you make more educational videos!

Invun

[HarryLinux007]

Outstanding, congratulations on another great educational video.

[puthitopi]

Hats off

[ki4clz]

Another GREAT video... This stuff is great for homeschoolers

[shoretea1]

You're really good at explaining this. Interesting:)

[S0chan]

It's incredible how much you can achieve with the most basic math.

Thank you for this video.

[CrazyJoe136]

It's incredible how they could have accomplished that so long ago. Thank you for uploading.

[Mikey34549]

RAD

[stroxi]

nice

[xazuross]

that's cool