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    Legendre Funcs: Homework & Equations Explained

    Homework Statement Hi everyone, I am having issues understanding how Legendre functions work especially the recursion and what the subscripts mean in general. I am attempting to make a program to compute the legendre functions Pnm(cos(theta)) and the normalized version and then verifying it by...
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    News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here

    The hydroelectric dams made a good few examples for the beginning of my essay. Anyone know about any other worldwide issues like this?
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    News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here

    Thanks! I will search for this and see if there are any interesting articles or papers on it ^__^. If anyone has anymore ideas feel free to post!
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    News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here

    I'm having issues finding a specific case xD. I never really like social classes and when I saw we had to write and essay I was like OH NO. An example is that my friend is using how they relocated inuit people in Northern Canada in order to gather resources or something. I need something...
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    News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here

    I can't find any relevant articles or good ones at that T_T. Bump?!
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    News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here

    AH, okay I will search that up if anyone else has seen anything interesting lately which is related to this that would be great if you told me =)
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    News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here

    I think basically what I need is something that relates to issues of the individual and his right to the land. An example would be of forcing people to move from a parcel of land which the "own" in order to make something for the good of the public xD. Something like that haha
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    News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here

    Hi everyone, I didn't know where to really post this but I have an essay which I must write for an engineering course which relates to land tenures. I need to find an article which has enough information for me to write and essay or other sources. Is anyone familiar with any land tenure...
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    How do you convert from LA to CI system using right ascension and declination?

    Yes, that is correct I was confusing myself, sorry xD. I have another question in order to find the CI using right ascension and declination. How would I be able to compute that? Thanks! Maybe I should be in the astronomy section xD
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    How do you convert from LA to CI system using right ascension and declination?

    Homework Statement I was given a question to transform the LA system to the CI system. (Local astronomic and Conventional Inertial) Homework Equations r^LA=P1*R2(90-Ф)*R3(Λ)*R2(-xp)*R1(-yp)*R3(GAST)*N*P*r^CL The Attempt at a Solution I attempted this on MATLAB but I used the...
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    Curvilinear & Cartesian Conversions

    I figured out the curvilinear to cartesian conversion. Now I'm stuck on cartesian to curvilinear especially the convergence value T_T.
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    Curvilinear & Cartesian Conversions

    I'm trying to create a program which will do these calculations. I am given Latitudes, Longitudes, and ellipsoidal heights for ellipsoids and another set of x, y, and z coordinates. I am so confused looking at how to convert these things. I know I need to iterate in order to go from cartesian to...
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    How do I calculate straight line distance on a sphere?

    Ah, okay so that's what it is I totally forgot about conversions. Thanks for the help!
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    How do I calculate straight line distance on a sphere?

    Here is the image [PLAIN]http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8727/spheren.png
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