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Posted on January 12, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

Calculating the earth radius at latitude

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How do you find radius with latitude?

Quote from video: The bigger r indicates the earth's radius. If you can recall we said that the radius of the f is given in two units in nautical miles. And in kilometers.

How the radius of Earth is calculated?

(C = 2πr) With this information, Eratosthenes inferred that the Earth’s radius was 6366 km. Both of these values are very close to the accepted modern values for the Earth’s circumference and radius, 40,070 km and 6378 km respectively, which have since been measured by orbiting spacecraft.
 

How do you find the circumference of the earth at a given latitude?

The term 2πRE 2 π R E is the circumference of the Earth at the equator or equatorial circumference. Therefore, we can express the circumference at a given latitude as c=2πrEcosθ=equatorial circumference×cosθ c = 2 π r E cos ⁡ θ = equatorial circumference × cos ⁡ .

How do you calculate equatorial radius?

Polar and equatorial radius of curvature



b2/a = 6,335.439 km. The Earth’s prime-vertical radius of curvature at the equator equals the equatorial radius, N = a.

What is latitude formula?

As we have just seen, the angle at X is 90−θ. Since l is vertical and e horizontal, the angle at L is 90∘. And because angles in a triangle always add up to 180∘, the angle λ, which is our latitude, is λ=180−90−(90−θ)=θ.
 

How do you find the latitude formula?

To get the latitude of the address in cell B2, use the formula = GetLatitude(B2) To get the longitude of the address in cell B2, use the formula = GetLongitude(B2)
 

What is the easiest way to find the radius?

Quote from video: The radius length of a circle is the distance from the center to any point on the circle. Which is necessarily half of the diameter.

What is the radius area formula?

The area of a circle is pi times the radius squared (A = π r²). Learn how to use this formula to find the area of a circle when given the diameter.

What is the easiest way to measure radius?

Earth Geometry | How to Calculate Distance Along Latitude …

What is the easiest way to find the radius?

Quote from video: The radius length of a circle is the distance from the center to any point on the circle. Which is necessarily half of the diameter.

How do you find the radius of a path?

r=mvqBsinθ. r=mvsinθqB. This should be because we only consider the perpendicular component of velocity when we calculate magnetic force and therefore the velocity to which the force is perpendicular is the component of velocity perpendicular to →B and not →v.
 

How do you find the radius with 2 points?

(x−h)2+(y−k)2=r2 ( x – h ) 2 + ( y – k ) 2 = r 2 is the equation form for a circle with r radius and (h,k) as the center point. In this case, r=√26 and the center point is (2,7) . The equation for the circle is (x−(2))2+(y−(7))2=(√26)2 ( x – ( 2 ) ) 2 + ( y – ( 7 ) ) 2 = ( 26 ) 2 .

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