Shortest distance is always along the great circle. All latitudes but the Equator are small circles . Maybe you need to check again: the answer is around 7111 km. You can generate the formula for shortest distance by transferring to the equator or solve directly . Kudos bro, you are doing a great job
Sir, as you present a sphere I presume you also consider distances along the great circle. If so your distance for the given coordinates is wrong. According to the Haversine formula the great circle distance (=shortest distance along sphere) should be 7108 km, based on Earth radius 6400 km. So your distance 6748 km is then more than 5% too short.
Quite sad. I have seen several different approaches on the shortest distance in earth geometry giving different answers altogether. I don't know which one is correct. There are two points which are causing this confusion; the direction of the shortest distance and the angle of the shortest distance. We need to establish a correct concept on this one otherwise most videos are misleading.
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Shortest distance is always along the great circle. All latitudes but the Equator are small circles . Maybe you need to check again: the answer is around 7111 km.
You can generate the formula for shortest distance by transferring to the equator or solve directly .
Kudos bro, you are doing a great job
The distance between two points on the earth's surface is on the great circle, not a chord... That is also known as geodesic.
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Sir, as you present a sphere I presume you also consider distances along the great circle. If so your distance for the given coordinates is wrong. According to the Haversine formula the great circle distance (=shortest distance along sphere) should be 7108 km, based on Earth radius 6400 km. So your distance 6748 km is then more than 5% too short.
Always on point sir
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What will be the value of alpha if Two points have different North value?
Wrong answer... The shortest distance should be always along the great circle...
What is a formula for finding shortest distance between two points along the great circle?
The Haversine formula, for Excel it will be like this:
=ACOS( SIN(lat1)*SIN(lat2) + COS(lat1)*COS(lat2)*COS(lon2-lon1) ) * 6371000
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Sir please solve board mass problems
The answer is wrong sir.
Make different latitude
Quite sad. I have seen several different approaches on the shortest distance in earth geometry giving different answers altogether. I don't know which one is correct. There are two points which are causing this confusion; the direction of the shortest distance and the angle of the shortest distance. We need to establish a correct concept on this one otherwise most videos are misleading.
Wrong answer, please read before making your presentations public. So misleading