WHAT YOU NEED: an orange, pencil and paper. The orange should be as round as possible, so the peel represents the surface area of a sphere. STEP 2: Repeat this 3 more times. You should now have 4 ...
Most trigonometry students look at triangles on a flat surface. However, people from ancient astronomers to modern navigators calculated the arc lengths and angles of triangles on a sphere. They used ...
above its surface. Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the Earth is a sphere. We’ve all seen beautiful images of ...