{"id":123269,"date":"2015-09-10T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=f34032f78657479da87fe8ef69cf66d8"},"modified":"2015-09-10T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T23:00:00","slug":"parallax-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=123269","title":{"rendered":"Parallax in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes a parallax experiment performed by undergraduate physics students at<br \/>\nQueensland University of Technology. The experiment is analogous to the parallax method used in<br \/>\nastronomy to measure distances to the local stars. The result of one of these experiments is<br \/>\npresented in this paper. A target was photographed using a digital camera at five distances between<br \/>\n3 and 8 metres from two vantage points spaced 0.6 m apart. The parallax distances were compared with<br \/>\nthe actual distance measured using a tape measure and the average error was 0.5\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes a parallax experiment performed by undergraduate physics students at<br \/>\nQueensland University of Technology. The experiment is analogous to the parallax method used in<br \/>\nastronomy to measure distances to the local stars. The result &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}