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GPS: Where Are You?

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States12.S56
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2008English
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This is a freshman advising seminar. The professor of a FAS is the first year advisor to the (no more than 8) students in the seminar. The use of Global Positioning System (GPS) in a wide variety of applications has exploded in the last few years. In this seminar we explore how positions on the Earth were determined before GPS; how GPS itself works and the range of applications in which GPS is now a critical element.

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