OCS 1005 Chapter : Ch8ocs HW Questions
15 Mar 2019
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3. 19. 2012: the sun"s influence on earth"s tide is only 46% that of the moon"s influence because though the sun is. 27 million times larger than the moon, it is 390 times farther away from earth. 50 minutes to catch up with the moon: spring tide occurs during new and full moons because there is constructive interference between the solar and lunar bulges, which means that they combine causing a larger bulge or tide. The tide would just be significantly lesser: no, tidal waves are considered swallow-water waves. The diurnal tidal pattern has one high tide and one low tide each lunar day. They have a tidal period of 24 hours 50 minutes. A semidiurnal tidal pattern has two high and two low tides each lunar day. A mixed tidal pattern may have characteristics of both diurnal and semidiurnal tides. It exhibits a condition called diurnal inequality which means that successive high and/or low tides will have significantly different heights.
