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    How Do You Calculate the Shortest Flight Path Between Two Points on the Globe?

    Ahhhh alright, that makes things much more clear.
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    How Do You Calculate the Shortest Flight Path Between Two Points on the Globe?

    It would have to be an arc length because the Earth is a sphere. So I would use S=r(theta)?
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    How Do You Calculate the Shortest Flight Path Between Two Points on the Globe?

    Well R=√x^2 + y^2 correct? In that case the radius for point 1 would be approximately 40.5 and point 2 would be 154.8. Would I then set up a triangle with the radii and use Pythagorean theorem for the distance, in a straight line, between the two points?
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    How Do You Calculate the Shortest Flight Path Between Two Points on the Globe?

    This wasn't provided in the prompt, but outside resources tell me it is 33258 kilometers. Ahhh I meant subtraction, silly mistake.
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    How Do You Calculate the Shortest Flight Path Between Two Points on the Globe?

    Homework Statement To attend the 2000 Summer Olympics, a fan flew from Mosselbaai, South Africa (34S, 22E) to Sydney, Australia (34S, 151E). (a) What is the smallest angular distance the fan has to travel: (1) 34 degrees (2) 12 degrees (3) 117 degrees (4) 129 degrees? Why? (b) Determine the...