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5. The difference between a solar day on Earth and a siderealday is about 4 minutes. If the Earth orbited the Sun at 0.5 AU,what would the difference be? (Assume the Earth’s orbit is circularand the rotation rate is the same.)

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The sidereal day is wrt to a distant fixed star and solar day to the sun Earth revolves around the sun with time period 36525 days and completes 360 degrees So each day it    See Answer
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