Good
For 1
What are GPS receivers good for?
Go
to the following website:
Howstuffworks "How GPS Receivers Work" and read about the
technology behind GPS receivers. This
site will help you understand how this amazing technology
works, and will even teach you what 3-D trilateration means. You
might also learn that how you locate something is not as simple
as it might seem at first thought.
Let's see how"good" you are.
After you read the article, answer the following questions:
Question 1: Explain how satellites could use 3-D
trilateration to locate you. Please use your own
words to describe your answer.
Question 2: Now, illustrate your answer to question 1 by
using pictures. Please add comments where
necessary.
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