Prologue
- Here starts the Geography series by Dr.Kevin Virani, Faculty SPIPA
- Videos not available but PDFs of the powerpoints themselves cover all the descriptions
- Language: English
- Utility: Geography for UPSC Civil Services General Studies Paper, CAPF, CDS and similar competitive exams.
- Following topics are covered in the PDF file given at the bottom of this article
Longitude, Latitude and international Date line
- Why longitude and latitude is needed?
- What is earth’s grid system?
- Latitude: definition
- What are the parallels? five main parallels on the globe
- Climatic zone of the earth: tropical, temperate and frigid zone
- Longitude: definition
- What are the meridians?
- What is International Date Line (IDL)? How days and date change while crossing international date line?
- How time is set worldwide according to latitudes?
- What is the difference between local time and standard time?
- What is Indian standard time?
- Map work : Countries passing through Equator
- Map work: Tropic of Capricorn passes through which countries?
- Map work : The Tropic of Cancer passes through which countries?
- Map work : Prime Meridian passing through which Countries and places?
- Map work : What countries does the Arctic Circle and Antarctica circle pass through?
Rotation, revolution & Eclipse
- Rotation and revolution of the earth
- What is perihelion and aphelion?
- What is sidereal day?
- What is a solar day?
- Difference between sidereal day and solar day
- Inclination of axis & its significance
- What is precession of axis of earth?
- Effects of rotation and revolution of the earth
- Effects of the inclination of the axis
- What is Coriolis effect?
- Circle of illumination
- Sumer solstice and winter solstice: how do they occur and its effect
- vernal/spring equinox and autumnal equinox: how do they occur and its effect
- Synchronous rotation of the moon – why is only one part of the moon can be seen from the earth?
- When do full moon and new moon occur?
- How do solar and lunar eclipse occur – what is Syzygy position
- Why eclipse does not occur on every full and new moon?
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wonderful sir .. waited for a long time for this … its worth the wait …\,,/
Why videos are not available Sir?
Good one sir .keep it up.
Sir tell us from where we can download it..i didn’t find it in download section of Geography.
Sir Got It..
Where is the YouTube video?
unable to open the file format….
yup… me too…
Sir, please we provide videos too…..please
Sir, please we provide videos too…..please
sit is it necessary read this new pdf file after viewing GEO mam video and ppt?
Sir Pls. see if video lectures can also be provided
sir please we provoid mppcs pre meterial…
Sir thanks for your effort but there are some errors on the following pages,
Corrections:
Page 3: 40075/360~111Km(approx), i have taken equatorial radius as 6378.13 Km.
Page 21: only Srilanka share common time with India, not Nepal.
Page 22: Russia 11 time Zones. spotted only 9 (earlier data)
page30: In place of abu dhabi please change to UAE. And by the way is western sahara a country?
hii Mr. Classified,,,
Can you please send me the pdf file ? I have downloaded the same, but it shows file is damaged and couldnt open..
Thanx…
Sir,
Plz help… the pdf file once downloaded, it shows the file is damaged and couldnt open. How to download it ?
Please Sir Mujhe History (Ancient, Modern,) Ki Pdf File Meri Mail Id Par Upload Karne Ki Kirpa Karen
Thank You
Go through 6th class geography next. …
Ncert not next sorry
chirag sir can u give your’s email id.
sir mujhe ancient ,modern history pre Cum mains ki pdi file kaise upload hogi
Sir will you lecture on oceanography and climatology too?
Thankyou sir.
unable to download the pdf sir!