Spherical Geometry and Navigation
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Senior High (10-12)
- Produced By: Classroom Video
- Year: 2001
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
- Running Time: 20m
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We follow the crew of a 30,000 ton container ship as they navigate their way around the globe. Topics include the Earth as a sphere; great and small circles; definitions of latitude and longitude; the use of latitude and longitude to describe location; origin of the meter and nautical mile; calculating the arc length of a circle; time zones; using basic geometry to calculate the circumference of Earth.