飞跃北极数学模型(英文板)8页.docVIP

Flying over the North Pole Area Abstract We use three models to explain mathematically the meaning of “The flying time from Beijing to Detroit will be four hours shorter”,considering two conditions:the earth is a ball and it is a rotating ellipsoid. In the first case ,we assum the earth is a sphere with the radius of 6371. As we know,e the shortest distance between two points on a sphere is the length of the inferior arc. So we put the center of the earth as the origin of coordinates to set a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. By calculating the relevant vector,we got the expressi