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- Length of a great circle arc (the distance between two points)
- Bearing of a great circle arc
- Compare great circle arc to rhumb line
- Antipodal point

2. **Great Circles and a Point**
- Determine the distance of a point to a great circle arc
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5. **Angles and Great Circles**
- Calculate the acute and obtuse angle of two great circle paths
- Calculate the directed angle of two great circle paths based on an intersection point
- Determine directed angle between great circle and intersection point
- Determine clockwise/counterclockwise ordering of points on spherical polygon
- Working with Spherical Triangles formed by great circle arcs

6. **Indiana Jones and the Great Circle**
- Working Example

7. Spherical Areas
- Permieter of spherical polygon
- Area of quadrilateral patch on a unit sphere
- Area of triangular patch
- Mean center of spherical polygon

## Running the Notebooks

You can either run the notebook using [Binder](https://binder.projectpythia.org/) or on your local machine.
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