Earth Sight

Author:John Golden

If the earth was a sphere, how far could you see on a clear day from a given height? Can you find a function with input altitude, output arc length you could see?

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GeoGebra around GeoGebra
Pendulum Snake
Construcing a 30° Angle and Properties of Rhombi
Comparing Two Quantities by Percentage
Construcing a 60° Angle and Properties of 30°-60°-90° Triangles

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attaching_objects2-intersect
Geometry transformations
position velocity and acceleration
step 9
Lesson 3.1 Exploration - Skew Lines
translation by vectors

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Translation
Prism
Parallelogram
Binomial Distribution
Confidence Interval