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Thus we consider here small displacements on the surface of the earth.
Consider a point r on the surface of the earth.

Consider two points r_1 and r_2, which lie on the surface of the earth, near r.
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So define...

As the
's are small we have:-
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Thus from the equation's of the spheroid we have :-

Similarly for the second displacement we have...

The cos of u, the angle between these two displacements can be calculated from the
scalar product...

The length of the displacements are :-...
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