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Orientation: Compass, Rotation, Perpendicular, Anisotropy, North, West, East, Relative Direction, Galactic Coordinate System, South
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-24.
ISBN 9781156788790
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Compass, Rotation, Perpendicular, Anisotropy, North, West, East, Relative Direction, Galactic Coordinate System, South, Cardinal Direction, Plane of Rotation, Rotation Representation, Orient, Parallel, Hand Compass, Clockwise, Boxing the Compass, Right-Hand Rule, Widdershins, Starboard, Galactic Orientation, Screw Axis, Rodrigues' Rotation Formula, Curve Orientation, Luopan, Transverse Isotropy, Windward and Leeward, Port, European Terrestrial Reference System 1989, Sunwise, Path Integration, Bi Isotropic, Plumb-Bob, Kamal, Northwest, Septentrional, Southwest, Northeast, Pelorus, Marching Line, Easting and Northing, Right Hand Grip Rule, List of International Common Standards, True North, Zonal and Meridional, Hydrostatic Stress, Zonal and Poloidal, Grid North, Solar Compass. Excerpt: A compass is a navigational instrument for determining direction relative to the Earth's magnetic poles. It consists of a magnetized pointer (usually marked on the North end) free to align itself with Earth's magnetic field. The compass greatly improved the safety and efficiency of travel, especially ocean travel. A compass can be used to calculate heading, used with a sextant to calculate latitude, and with a marine chronometer to calculate longitude. It thus provides a much improved navigational capability that has only been recently supplanted by modern devices such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). A compass is any magnetically sensitive device capable of indicating the direction of the magnetic north of a planet's magnetosphere. The face of the compass generally highlights the cardinal points of north, south, east and west. Often, compasses are built as a stand alone sealed instrument with a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot, or moving in a fluid, thus able to point in
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