Is the sunrise and sunset at the equator the same each day?

Answer 1

no, you can check with online tool, very clever and easy to use is: http://www.sunearthtools.com/dp/tools/pos_sun.php here you obtain the sun path in Cartesian and Polar chart, at any point on the earth at a particular time of day, and time of rise set and noon.

Answer 2

Not exactly...
Although we measure every day as exactly 24 hours, the actual time from when the sun is at its highest elevation, known as apparent solar noon, on one day to apparent solar noon of the next day varies through the year due to the eccentricity of Earth's orbit causing the Earth to speed up when it's closest to the sun in early January and slow down when it's farthest away in early July and due to the tilt of Earth's rotational axis with respect to its orbital plane. About half of our apparent solar days are a little longer than 24 hours and about half are a little shorter. Averaging all of the apparent solar days of a whole year gives us the mean solar day of 24 hours. The difference between apparent solar time, also called sundial time, and mean solar time, or clock time, is called the equation of time. The total extent of the variation is about a half hour with extremes at around the 3rd of November and around the 11th of February. Since the time from sunrise to sunset is 12.1 hours every day of the year along the equator, sunrise and sunset do occur at the same time every day according to sundial time, but to get the actual clock times we have to add the equation of time every day. That causes the the sunrise and sunset times to vary by about a half hour through the year with extremes around the 3rd of November and around the 11th of February.

Answer 3

No, the sunrise and sunset times at the equator vary slightly each day due to the tilt of the Earth's axis and its elliptical orbit around the sun. The equator experiences relatively consistent day length throughout the year, with the difference in sunrise and sunset times being most noticeable as one moves towards the poles.

Answer 4

The sun always rises from the east and always sets to the west.