Physics - Test Your Knowledge: Vectors (24 of 30) Geodesic Part 4: Find the Distance

In this video I will (Part 1 of 4) show how we find the distance between 2 points on a sphere, or globe. Finally, I will find the distance between New York, 40.74, -73.99, and Los Angeles, 34.05, -118.24.

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[introvertworld]

Your explanation was so good... This helped me a lot.

[ptyptypty]

Thank God for Google Earth and GPS !! lol... wow!... that's some serious Number Crunching.. but it SHOWS how find distance works... :) .. nicely done Michel....

[armanisyamizwanothman]

wow...off by 10km. thank you sir. you helped me understand this

[markberardi]

I can see points on the earth can be effectively represented as vectors. I was wondering is it possible to represent a geodesic?