Accession Number:
AD0641011
Title:
NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF THE DISTANCE FROM A POINT TO AN ELLIPSOID,
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Corporate Author:
BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABS ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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Report Date:
1966-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
22.0
Abstract:
A problem of current interest in weapon evaluation studies at the Ballistic Research Laboratories requires an efficient method for computing the distance from an arbitrary point in space to a given ellepsoid. Two techniques for performing the calculation are proposed in the report. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Theoretical Mathematics
- Ballistics