Set square (redirect from Navigational triangle (tool))
protractor triangle types exist for navigation purposes. Various designs are named navigation (protractor) triangle, nautical navigational triangle, nautical...
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The navigational triangle or PZX triangle is a spherical triangle used in astronavigation to determine the observer's position on the globe. It is composed...
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triangle can be located on a plane or on a sphere. Applications requiring triangle solutions include geodesy, astronomy, construction, and navigation...
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The Summer Triangle is an astronomical asterism in the northern celestial hemisphere. The defining vertices of this imaginary triangle are at Altair,...
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The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly bounded by Florida, Bermuda...
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In air navigation, the wind triangle is a graphical representation of the relationship between aircraft motion and wind. It is used extensively in dead...
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Set and drift (redirect from Drift (navigation))
good. Thus creating your set and drift vector Step 7. Using the navigational triangle, place on set and drift vector. Then drag to center crosshairs keeping...
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Navigational instruments are instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the...
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The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and New Zealand...
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Intercept method (category Navigation)
Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office Navigation for School and College, by A.C Gardner and W.G. Creelman Navigational Algorithms http://sites.google...
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Longitude by chronometer (category Navigation)
using a chronometer; these observations are reduced by solving the navigational triangle for meridian angle and require known values for altitude, latitude...
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Geopositioning (redirect from Navigational fix)
considered the minimum for a practical navigational fix. The three LOPs when drawn on the chart will in general form a triangle, known as a 'cocked hat'. The navigator...
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Trigonometry (redirect from Triangle identities)
(trígōnon) 'triangle' and μέτρον (métron) 'measure') is a branch of mathematics concerned with relationships between angles and side lengths of triangles. In...
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offshore yachtsmen use celestial navigation as either a primary navigational tool or as a backup. Celestial navigation was used in commercial aviation...
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with other navigational equipment, it could cause confusion to inexperienced sailors and pilots. Conspiracy theorists have blamed the triangle on a negative...
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a purpose-designed electronic navigational computer to calculate initial headings. The primary instrument of navigation is the magnetic compass. The needle...
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Spherical trigonometry (redirect from Spherical triangle)
the metrical relationships between the sides and angles of spherical triangles, traditionally expressed using trigonometric functions. On the sphere...
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Piloting (redirect from Navigational transit)
the seabed, details of the coastline, navigational hazards, locations of natural and human-made aids to navigation, and human-made structures such as harbours...
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A navigational aid (NAVAID), also known as aid to navigation (ATON), is any sort of signal, markers or guidance equipment which aids the traveler in navigation...
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Dead reckoning (category Navigation)
path integration. Advances in navigational aids that give accurate information on position, in particular satellite navigation using the Global Positioning...
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flood, where the Noah's Ark appears, is based both on myths and on the navigational practice of the Mesopotamian civilizations, who from the Sumerians onwards...
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Polynesians made contact with nearly every island within the vast Polynesian Triangle, using outrigger canoes or double-hulled canoes. The double-hulled canoes...
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Circumcircle (redirect from Triangle Circumscribing)
circumcircle of a triangle is a circle that passes through all three vertices. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter of the triangle, and its radius...
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Rule of marteloio (category Navigation)
mariners how to plot the traverse between two different navigation courses by means of resolving triangles with the help of the Toleta and basic arithmetic....
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Augmentation System (WAAS) Wind triangle Dutton, Benjamin (2004). "15 – Basic Radio Navigation". Dutton's Nautical Navigation (15 ed.). Naval Institute Press...
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About Lunars... by George Huxtable. (Free tutorial) Navigation Spreadsheets: Lunar distance Navigational Algorithms - free software for Lunars Longitude by...
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The difference is known as the drift, and can be determined by the wind triangle. At least seven ways to measure the heading of a vehicle have been described...
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Polynesia (section Navigation)
type of expression. Another navigational technique may have involved following sea turtle migrations. While other navigational techniques may have been sufficient...
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trigonometry, a skinny triangle[citation needed] is a triangle whose height is much greater than its base. The solution of such triangles can be greatly simplified...
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right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths. They are widely used in all sciences that are related to geometry, such as navigation, solid mechanics...
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