The Geometry of Navigation

Roy Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

140 Seiten

1998
Horwood Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-898563-46-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers a treatment of the Earth as an ellipsoid of revolution, pictured as a sphere, as has served navigators for centuries and applies to surface navigation and also to the surfaces of planets. It also includes methods for fixing a position by astronomical observation.

Many problems in navigation which, because of the true shape of the Earth, seemed numerically and algebraically impractical, can now be resolved by computer. Nevertheless, traditional methods provide important back-up, for which geometry is invaluable. This book offers a treatment of the Earth as an ellipsoid of revolution, pictured as a sphere, as has served navigators for centuries and applies to surface navigation and also to the surfaces of planets. It also includes methods for fixing a position by astronomical observation, as well as from the tracking of the angular co-ordinates of an astronomical body.

Roy Williams, Master Mariner, Liverpool Docks, UK

Geometrical representation of the earth; Navigable surfaces and chart projections; Navigating along Rhumb lines; Shortest paths on the surface of a sphere; Shortest paths on the surface of an ellipsoid; Paths between nearly antipodean points; Great ellipse on the surface of an ellipsoid; Navigating along the arc of a small ellipse; Surface position from astronomical observation; Surface position from satellite data; Appendices: Table of latitude parts (Meridian distance); Transformation between equations; References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1998
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 242 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	1-898563-46-2 / 1898563462
ISBN-13	978-1-898563-46-4 / 9781898563464
Zustand	Neuware