- An
ellipsoid is a
surface that can be
obtained from a
sphere by
deforming it by
means of
directional scalings, or more generally, of an
affine transformation...
- the
angle formed between the
vector perpendicular (or normal) to the
ellipsoidal surface from the point, and the
plane of the equator. Two
levels of abstraction...
- An
Earth ellipsoid or
Earth spheroid is a
mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a
reference frame for com****tions in geodesy, astronomy...
- A spheroid, also
known as an
ellipsoid of
revolution or
rotational ellipsoid, is a
quadric surface obtained by
rotating an
ellipse about one of its prin****l...
- the
motion of its
inertia ellipsoid,
which is
rigidly fixed to the
rigid body like a
coordinate frame. Its
inertia ellipsoid rolls,
without slipping, on...
- the
ellipsoid method is an
iterative method for
minimizing convex functions over
convex sets. The
ellipsoid method generates a
sequence of
ellipsoids whose...
-
Ellipsoidal coordinates are a three-dimensional
orthogonal coordinate system ( λ , μ , ν ) {\displaystyle (\lambda ,\mu ,\nu )} that
generalizes the two-dimensional...
- The
study of
geodesics on an
ellipsoid arose in
connection with
geodesy specifically with the
solution of
triangulation networks. The
figure of the Earth...
-
geocentric frames (see below). OSGB36 is
based on the Airy
ellipsoid, a
reference ellipsoid named after George Biddell Airy.
Introduced in 1830, it is...
- A
Jacobi ellipsoid is a
triaxial (i.e. scalene)
ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium which arises when a self-gravitating,
fluid body of
uniform density...
