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Google Earth Physics

Popular Physics 2013-06-18 v1 Physics Education

Abstract

Google Earth photographs often show ships and their wakes in great detail. We discuss how the images can be used to calculate the velocity of these ships.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.3333,
  title  = {Google Earth Physics},
  author = {Carlos Eduardo Aguiar and Anderson Ribeiro de Souza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3333},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

3 pages, 4 figures, Latex

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