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- This computer visualization activity is designed to help upper division undergraduate students model straight lines on a rotating Earth.
- Students use Maple to draw straight lines, i.e. great circles, on the earth, taking the earth's rotation into account.
- The entire class wrap-up discussion summarizes group findings, leading to a discussion on geodesics (“straight” lines on a curved surface).