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Suunto® Clinometer Percent & Topo
Price : $133.50
Features
: - Model PM5/66PC. ±150%, ±200' @ 66' baseline. Percent/degree conversions on back.
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This clinometer features percent and topographic scales. All Suunto Clinometers feature solid aluminum housing with jeweled bearing assembly. Damped scale for smooth accurate readings. Parallax-free lens. 1/4'' x 20 threaded tripod socket. Includes lanyard and black nylon case. Dimensions: 2-3/4'' x 2'' x 5/8''. Weight: 4.2 oz.
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Advantage ADV8002 Compass with Built-In Clinometer
Price : $19.95
Features
: - Compact mirrored compass for taking highly accurate and reliable directional measurements
- Full-size sighting mirror with vee notch
- Floatable, polypropylene body
- Dial with 2° graduations and declination scale makes turning from map bearings to field headings easy
- Easy-to-read text with inch and millimeter rules
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A premium quality compact compass designed with user-friendly features for use by architects, hikers, satellite installers, campers, boaters, military and more. The ADV8002 sports a nylon lanyard for around-the-neck use, and also includes a clinometer for slope angle measurements. It is durable, reliable and performs flawlessly in even the most demanding of conditions. Due to their easy-to-read markings and superior design, the ADV8002 is also ideally suited to navigating in conditions of poor visibility.
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Tandem
Price : $249.99 $241.95
Features
: - Compass/Clinometer
- With Reverse Scale
- Slope & Height Measurements
- Compass Bearings
- Liquid-Filled Precision
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Questions & Answers
Question : What are some proffesions that use clinometers?
I cant think of any except an architect.
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Maritime. Ships use it all the time to make certain they are riding on even keel. When you transfer fuel, take on stores, etc, you have to stay balanced. Obviously, there are transient readings. When landing helicopters on the deck, you need to know how much pitch and roll the ship is experiencing. Helicopters are not certified to land on a ship's deck if certain pitch and/or roll limits are exceeded.Commercial Aviation. Sometimes the fuel gauges are inoperative, meaning one tank does not electronically report correctly how much fuel it contains. You need a clinometer to determine how far from "level" the airplane is sitting (on the ground, naturally). Dip-sticks are used to by maintenance personnel to manually determine how much fuel is in the tank. The dip-sticks measure the level of fuel from different parts of the tank. If the airplane is not level, you will not get accurate readings. But, using the clinometer, you can correct for those errors.
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Question : Cave cartography, how is it done?
Please don't tell me they make line-of-sight measurements, use clinometers, laser rangefinders, compasses and scaling rods.How do they actually determine the overall shape of the chambers and rockpiles?I'd assume it's very tedious work for the geekiest of geeks.
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and an altimeter is very useful (not to tell you how high u r but) to tell you how low you areanother trick is to add a dye to any water in there too find out were it flows outu can hang aluminium foil to detect air currents which a rough but useful way to make provisional mapspeople who explore caves are little bit crazy
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Question : Any interesting ideas of projects on clinometers/inclinometers?
Urgent. Having a maths project now. And we need ideas on interesting scenario/problem in daily life to demonstrate how clinometers/inclinometers could be used in daily life. In the project, we need to apply trigonometry, to find height of something interesting. Please render your help. Thanks.
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Clinometers measure incline and decline, Boats have clinometers to measure heel.
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Question : what do scientists use to mesure the rate of tectonic plate movement?
A.clinometersB.global positioning systemC.densitometersD.seismometers
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Nowadays they can use GPS. The other three are useless for this measurement.The earliest way was by the remanent magnetism of rocks. For example, around 1955-60, volcanic rocks about 3 million years in the Arabian peninsula were found to be magnetised in an average direction of about 8 degrees west of true north, where the averaging was enough to cancel out the wandering of the magnetic North Pole. So we conclude that Arabia has rotated 8 degrees anticlockwise in 3 million years, probably with its north-western end stationary and its south-eastern end moving 160 miles, which comes to roughly 8 centimetres per year.
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Question : Geography - Beach Questions?
Wave Frequency:1) Why do we measure them? (How many per min)2)What limitations are there when measuring them? (e.g Very windy, meant more waves)Longshore Drift:1)Why do we measure Longshore drift (What direction it goes in and how long it takes for something to get from point A to point B)2) Once again limitations of measuring it?Groyne Profile:1) Why do we measure how much sediment is on either side of the groyne? 2) Limitations? (e.g human error - misreading tape)Beach Profile:1) Why do we measure the gradient of a beach?2) Limitations? e.g (Clinometers not pointed at correct point on pole or ranging poles put in at different heights)Thanks :)xxx
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From a mathematical point of view, the most primitive or fundamental wave is harmonic (sinusoidal) wave which is described by the equation f(x,t) = Asin(ωt − kx)), where A is the amplitude of a wave - a measure of the maximum disturbance in the medium during one wave cycle (the maximum distance from the highest point of the crest to the equilibrium).Longshore drift (sometimes known as shore drift, LSD or littoral drift) is a geological process by which sediments such as sand or other materials, move along a beach shore. this is done to measure erosionBasically the idea of a groyne is to prevent longshore Drift. Groynes are very useful and are the cheapest and most effective way of protecting a cliff and the beach behind it. The purpose of a groyne is to create and maintain a wide beach on its updrift side, primarily for recreation, but also for protection to the land behind. First, groynes act as a barrier to physically stop sediment transport (sand) in the direction of longshore transport through the system. This causes a build-up of the beach on the groyne's updrift side.However, this is often accompanied by accelerated erosion of the downdrift beach, known as terminal groyne syndrome, as it occurs after the terminal groyne, which receives little or no sand via longshore transport. (It is important to realize that groynes do not add any new sand to the beach, but merely retain some of the existing sand on the updrift side of the groin.) If a groyne is correctly designed, then the amount of material it can hold will be limited, and excess sediment will be free to move on through the system. However, if a groyne is too large it may trap all the sediment reaching it and this can cause severe beach erosion problems on the down-drift side.
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Question : I need some information(atleast 10 pgs long) on clinometers. Can someone suggest a site?
I need some information(atleast 10 pgs long) on clinometers. Can someone suggest a site?
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http://www.naturalhighs.net/waterfalls/clinometer.htmhttp://www.cipce.rpi.edu/%7Ecubink/webpage/ilio nhighsite/clinometer.htmCharles Marvin (source) Born 7 Oct 1858 U.S. meteorologist who invented the clinometer that figures height of clouds over airports. He was Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau (1913-34). He worked on, and wrote about, the Robinson cup anemometer, from early in his career with the Weather Bureau until years after his retirement. For early systematic investigations of the upper air, he designed and constructed kites and kite instruments. He also devised the Marvin pyrheliometer and inaugurated the regular measurement of solar radiation intensity by the Weather Bureau. Marvin designed a seismograph operated by the Weather Bureau. He was also particularly interested in the application of mathematical statistics to meteorological problems. http://www.du.edu/%7Ejcalvert/astro/abney.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinometer
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Question : How are clinometers made?
an easy method to make clinometers in wood
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you can construct one easily by using a protractor, a piece of thread with a small weight, and a piece of wood larger than the protractor with parallel sides. You know what a protractor is, right? That plastic thing you used in school to measure angles in geometry class?Align the flat side of the protractor with one of the parallel sides of the wood and glue it in place. The edge of the protractor has to align with the side of the piece of wood. At the mark in the center of the protractor, fasten the thread, long enough to hang down to the degree marks, with the weight below, short enough to clear when the wood is placed on a surface. Now, if you put this on a table and mark where the thread crosses the protractor degree marks, you have a simple clinometer. A carpenter's level works in much the same manner, but uses a bubble in a liquid filled curved tube. The carpenter level only tells you when something is at 0 degrees, but the principle is the same. Submarines use the bubble method in a semicircular tube, one aligned fore and aft and another aligned athwartships to determine the angle on the boat, up and down, and the list on the boat, which is side to side. By the way, as a bit of trivia, thse bubble clinometers is why submariners are also known as "bubbleheads" which surface sailors use as a derogatory term, and why submariners call surface ships skimmers, but that's another issue for another time.One of these, a tape measure, some knowledge of trigonometry, a scientific calculator and you can measure the height of a tree or a building...
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Question : How to use tangent in calculator?
I have different problems like88(tan70degrees) in class we used clinometers to check height of flag pole from different spotsand the problem looks sum thing like thatthe distance is 88 and the 70 is the deegres how would i punch that into calculatorsumhow when i do i get.. 241.7? i dont think thats right..yea but would that mean its 241ft high?i think i found the problem i wrote downtan70(degrees) = x/133 (x over 133)133 is the distanceand on the second part i gotx=88(tan70) i think i wrote down 2 diff problemsbut if i did how would i solve first stepi got it i was multiplying instead of dividing lol :Pthanks anyways
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I have different problems like88(tan70degrees) in class we used clinometers to check height of flag pole from different spotsand the problem looks sum thing like thatthe distance is 88 and the 70 is the deegres how would i punch that into calculatorsumhow when i do i get.. 241.7? i dont think thats right..yea but would that mean its 241ft high?i think i found the problem i wrote downtan70(degrees) = x/133 (x over 133)133 is the distanceand on the second part i gotx=88(tan70) i think i wrote down 2 diff problemsbut if i did how would i solve first stepi got it i was multiplying instead of dividing lol :Pthanks anyways
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Question : Would somebody please be able to help me with a math question about Clinometers I am finding it hard...?
Hello. I am doing the harder maths this year and I am a very good student. I am on a 20 / 20 for math this semester which is the highest A you can get. But I seem to be having troible with my assignment.We had to make a clinometer and go and measure things and such. But one question said "prove why the angle meaured on the clinometer is euqal to the angle of elevation."I have tried and tried so many different ways of doing this. I have to use geometric rules such as "vertically opposite angles are equal" etc. I have tried so hard and I can't do it! And I don't want my score to go down!Please could someone not just give me the answer, but explain it as well? Because I do want a clear understanding of this.Thank you soooo much in advance all of you smarties out there I know you'll all be millionaires one day! :)
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I'm guessing you made a fixed-angle, 45° clinometer because this would be the easiest to work with. But, to be on the safe side, we'll assume the general case, where the clinometer can assume any angle. Say you're sighting the top of a tree with your instrument. The base of the tree is at point t. Let h = the height of the tree. Place your clinometer is at a distance d from t. Now here's where knowing what kind of clinometer you've made would come in handy. Let's say your clinometer has length l, from one end to the other. The "lower" end of the sight--the end of the instrument farthest from the tree--is at point d. Also, let y = the vertical distance between the lower and higher end of your sighting device. Then, y / l = tan(a), and h / d = tan(a), so a = arctan(y / l) = arctan(h / d), which is the angle of elevation.
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