Overview
Describing the earth as a sphere Identifying (using skeletal globe and locate (using real globe) and appreciating the followings: - North and South poles - Longitude - Latitude Meridian and - equator - Parallel of latitude - Radius of parallel of latitude - Radius of the earth. Solving problems on longitude and latitude
What you'll learn
- Joint venture account
- Explanation
- Earth as a sphere
- Identification of:
- - North and South poles
- - Longitudes
- - Latitudes
- - Small circles and great circles
- - Meridian and equator Parallel of latitude
- - Radius of parallel of latitude Radius of Earth.
- Revision of: arc length of a curve
- Calculations of distance between two points on the earth.
- Knotical rules, time variation