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Module: Anwendungen

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Branching Point: Applications. The practical heritage

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Branching Point: Laser applications

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Slide: Lasers in the industrial fabrication

Branching Point: Lasers in industry

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Slide: Keyboards

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Slide: Miniwatt bulb

Slide: Contacting: multiple pole strip

Slide: Electro-mechanical switches

Slide: Precise positioning of electro-optical connections

Slide: Protecting gas inclusion

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Slide: Control grids for broadcasting valves

Slide: Laserdrilling (contacting)

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Slide: Relay adjustment

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Slide: Messengers on foot or horseback and carrier pigeons ...

Slide: The "Rhineland cable", ...

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Slide: Modern traffic streams ...

Slide: 'Explosion' of the internet ...

Slide: 'Vehicles' at the data highway ...

Slide: Congestions at the data highway ...

Slide: Optical distributors ...

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Slide: Lasers in medical techniques

Slide: Operation

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Branching Point: Satellite navigation

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Slide: Classical navigation - sextant

Slide: Satellite navigation

Slide: Who observes whom?

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Slide: "Navigation error" - what does this mean in practice?

Slide: Error source: time measurement

Slide: Clock synchronization

Slide: Atmospheric effects

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Slide: Time dilation

Slide: Clocks in the gravitational field

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Slide: Global Positioning System (GPS) - details

Slide: Global Positioning System (GPS) - a few technical parameters

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Slide: European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS)

Slide: Galileo System

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Slide: From seafaring to satellite navigation

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Branching Point: From solar radiation to electrical current

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Slide: Edmond Alexandre Becquerel, ...

Satellite navigation

Originally developed for military purposes, satellite based navigation now experiences broad application within both the commercial and the private spheres.

Classical and satellite navigation	Non-relativistic sources of error
Relativistic effects	Global Positioning System (GPS)
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)	Animation

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