Assignment 1b

Instructions:
Answer all the questions. If your roll number is of the form B18abcdEE, then sum=a+b+c+d.
If sum is a single digit number, then S=sum. If sum is a two digit number of the form xy, then
S=x+y.
Questions:
1. Calculate the number of daylight hours (day length) at Bangalore on 21 st of Sth month
and 21st of (13-S) th month in a leap year. The latitude of Bangalore is 12° 58’ N.
2. Calculate the angle made by beam radiation with normal to a flat plate collector, tilted
by 30° from horizontal, pointing due south, located at Delhi, at 11:00 hrs (IST), on 1st
of Sth month in the year of 1999. The latitude and longitude of Delhi are 28° 35’ N and
77° 12’ E respectively. The standard IST longitude is 81° 44’ E.
3. Calculate the angle of incidence on a horizontal plane surface at Kolkata, at 14:00 hrs
(IST), on 21st of Sth month, in a leap year. The longitude and latitude of Kolkata are 88°
20’ E and 22° 32’ N respectively. The standard longitude of IST is 81° 44’ E.
4. For Jaipur (26° 55’ N, 75° 49’ E), calculate the zenith angle of the sun at 9:30 A.M. on
10th of Sth month in the year of 2015. The standard IST latitude for India is 81° 44’ E.
5. Calculate the hour angles at sunrise on 21st of Sth month and 21st of (13-S) th month in
a leap year for a flat plate solar collector inclined due south (i.e. γ = 0°) at an angle
equal to latitude of the place. The collector is located at Nagpur (21° 06’ N, 79° 03’ E)