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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.