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How Global Positioning System (GPS) works?
how GPS works?
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How GPS Works?
Gps navigation is really a network of approximately 30
satellites orbiting our planet in an altitude of 20,000
km. The machine was initially produced by the federal
government for military navigation however anybody
having a Gps navigation device, whether it's a cell
phone or handheld Gps navigation unit, will get radio
stations signals the satellites broadcast.
Wherever you are well on the earth, four or five Gps
navigation satellites are ‘visible’ anytime. Each one of
these transmits details about its position and also the
moment at regular times. These signals, travelling in
the speed of sunshine, are intercepted from your Gps
navigation receiver, which calculates what lengths
away each satellite is dependant on how lengthy it
required for that messages to reach.
Once it's information about how a long way away a
minimum of three satellites are, your Gps navigation
receiver can pinpoint where you are utilizing a process
known as trilateration.
Trilateration
Imagine you're standing somewhere on the planet with
three satellites on the horizon above you. Knowing
what lengths you're ready to come from satellite A, you
already know you've got to be located somewhere
around the red circle. Should you choose exactly the
same for satellites B and C, you are able to exercise
where you are by seeing in which the three circles
intersect. And this is what your Gps navigation
receiver does, even though it uses overlapping spheres
instead of circles.
Gps navigation and Relativity
Gps navigation satellites have atomic clocks aboard to
help keep accurate time. General and Special
Relativity however predict that variations can look
between these clocks as well as an identical clock on
the planet.
General Relativity predicts that point can look to
operate slower under more powerful gravitational pull
the clocks aboard the satellites will therefore appear
to operate quicker than time on the planet.
In addition, Special Relativity predicts that since the
satellites’ clocks are moving in accordance with time on
the planet, they'll seem to run slower.
The entire Gps navigation network needs to allow for of
these effects Proof that Relativity includes a real impact.
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