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  2. Great-circle navigation - Wikipedia

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    Great-circle navigation or orthodromic navigation (related to orthodromic course; from Ancient Greek ορθός (orthós) 'right angle', and δρόμος (drómos) 'path') is the practice of navigating a vessel (a ship or aircraft) along a great circle. Such routes yield the shortest distance between two points on the globe.

  3. Midpoint method - Wikipedia

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    The midpoint method is a refinement of the Euler method. and is derived in a similar manner. The key to deriving Euler's method is the approximate equality. which is obtained from the slope formula. and keeping in mind that. For the midpoint methods, one replaces (3) with the more accurate.

  4. Riemann sum - Wikipedia

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    Midpoint rule Middle Riemann sum of x ↦ x 3 over [0, 2] using 4 subintervals. For the midpoint rule, the function is approximated by its values at the midpoints of the subintervals. This gives f(a + Δx/2) for the first subinterval, f(a + 3Δx/2) for the next one, and so on until f(b − Δx/2). Summing the resulting areas gives

  5. Four-point flexural test - Wikipedia

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    The four-point flexural test provides values for the modulus of elasticity in bending , flexural stress , flexural strain and the flexural stress-strain response of the material. This test is very similar to the three-point bending flexural test. The major difference being that with the addition of a fourth bearing the portion of the beam ...

  6. Trapezoidal rule - Wikipedia

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    In calculus, the trapezoidal rule (also known as the trapezoid rule or trapezium rule) [a] is a technique for numerical integration, i.e., approximating the definite integral : The trapezoidal rule works by approximating the region under the graph of the function as a trapezoid and calculating its area. It follows that.

  7. Midpoint - Wikipedia

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    A midsegment (or midline) of a triangle is a line segment that joins the midpoints of two sides of the triangle. It is parallel to the third side and has a length equal to one half of that third side. The medial triangle of a given triangle has vertices at the midpoints of the given triangle's sides, therefore its sides are the three ...

  8. Midpoint circle algorithm - Wikipedia

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    A circle of radius 23 drawn by the Bresenham algorithm. In computer graphics, the midpoint circle algorithm is an algorithm used to determine the points needed for rasterizing a circle. It's a generalization of Bresenham's line algorithm. The algorithm can be further generalized to conic sections. [1] [2] [3]

  9. Newton–Cotes formulas - Wikipedia

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    Description. It is assumed that the value of a function f defined on [,] is known at + equally spaced points: < < <.There are two classes of Newton–Cotes quadrature: they are called "closed" when = and =, i.e. they use the function values at the interval endpoints, and "open" when > and <, i.e. they do not use the function values at the endpoints.