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The General Equation of a Geodesic on a Surface of Revolution applied to the Sphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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1. In attempting some work on geodesics on a spheroid, I was led to work out the geodesic on a sphere, and it may be interesting to see how the usual Spherical Trigonometry results arise from the general equation of a geodesic on a surface of revolution.

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