 | Mansfield Merriman - Earth - 1881 - 104 pages
...discuss in the next chapter. CHAPTEE II. THE EAETH AS A SPHEEOID. 18. SINCE an oblate spheroid is a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis, the equator and all the sections of the spheroid parallel to the equator are circles ; and all sections... | |
 | John Bradley Harbord - Naval art and science - 1883 - 472 pages
...dblatus, " compressed "). — A spheroid flattened or depressed at the poles ; it may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. This is the form a mass of fluid matter rotating on an axis assumes, and is important as being consequently... | |
 | Mansfield Merriman - Geodesy - 1903 - 274 pages
...azimuth Z' . CHAPTER VII. SPHEROIDAL GEODESY. 57. PROPERTIES OF THE ELLIPSE. Since an oblate spheroid is generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis, the equator and all the sections of the spheroid parallel to the equator are circles, and all sections... | |
 | De Volson Wood - Geometry, Analytic - 1890 - 372 pages
...' (6) which is the equation of the surface of the prolate ellipsoid. 232. The Oblate Ellipsoid may be generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Let the axis of 2 be the axis of revolution. Then proceeding as before, we have 233. The Ellipsoid... | |
 | John Parker - Thermodynamics - 1891 - 452 pages
...and the angular 5) velocity equal to ^ — ^.-2 , the surface of the earth is very approximately that generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis, the centre of the ellipse being placed at G, and the minor axis along Gz. The equation to this surface,... | |
 | John Bradley Harbord - Naval art and science - 1897 - 554 pages
...corresponding degree in the equatorial regions. Such a figure is called an Oblate Spheroid A symmetrical one would be generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis, and is hence called an Ellipsoid oj Revolution. The conclusion derived from measurements of arcs of... | |
 | Mansfield Merriman - Geodesy - 1899 - 274 pages
...simplified. CHAPTER VII. SPHEROIDAL GEODESY. 57. PROPERTIES OF THE ELLIPSE. Since an oblate spheroid is generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis, the equator and all the sections of the spheroid parallel to the equator are circles, and all sections... | |
 | Parker J. - 2019 - 448 pages
...velocity equal to -^ — TT™ , the surface of the earth is very — '.r X Ov" approximately that generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis, the centre of the ellipse being placed at G, and the minor axis along Gz. The equation to this surface,... | |
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Since an oblate spheroid is generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis, the equator and all the sections of the spheroid parallel to the equator are circles, and all sections made by planes passing through the axis of revolution are... 
