Error analysis for the Global Positioning System: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
m Unit conversion errors
Tag: Reverted
L3erdnik (talk | contribs)
Undid revision 1227169442 by Eliot.mallamo (talk)
Line 174:
: 45850 – 7210 = 38640 ns
 
Hence the satellites' clocks gain approximately 38,640 microsecondsnanoseconds a day or 38.6 μs per day due to relativistic effects in total.
 
In order to compensate for this gain, a GPS clock's frequency needs to be slowed by the fraction: