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MIT OpenCourseWare
GPS: Where Are You?
- Instructor
- Prof. Thomas Herring
- Term
- Fall 2008
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 3 solutions · 1 lecture note · 12 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.S56 GPS: Where Are You?, Fall 2008, Prof. Thomas Herring — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: We examine the results from exercise 1 — determination of the latitude and longitude of MIT campus
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Lecture 3: Discussion of results and techniques used to measure positions geometrically. How do you measure position without gravity? Geometric systems that use distance measurement. How to do this. How do you make maps and what is significance. Exercise 2 is set
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Lecture 6: Fieldwork in the circle. Use the theodolite to make the measurements. Students to reduce the results by the next class
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Lecture 7: Discussion of circle results obtained
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Lecture 8: GPS candy hunt. Before Lec #9, students bring in reports on the applications of GPS (for good and bad). Spring UROP discussions
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Lecture 9: UROP discussions (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Thomas Herring, 12.S56 GPS: Where Are You?, Fall 2008.
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