How can trigonometry be applied in everyday life.  What career field would trig be used in?
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Trig might be the most visually accesible mathematical form.  I know of math, I have studied physics, I have studied Computer Science, I practice these things as I practice my guitar, my singing, and my dancing.  Mathematics is a tool for understanding, and I do believe, humankind's purest expression of truth.
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Drafting, surveying, triangulation (using trigonometric theroms and formulas to determin distance, heighth, or location). Generally you'll fing the following types of people using it: architects, engineers, surveyors, cartographers, sailors, any and all branches of the militairy, navigaters, physicists, and of course geometry and trigonometry teachers.
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Switch your calculator from degrees (DEG) to radians (RAD). That should do the trick. \nHere are some quick trig rules you need to know:\nIn radians just remember that pi is 180 degrees. Pi/3 is 60 degrees, pi/2 is 90, pi/4 is 45 degrees and so on. \nIn a unit circle, the hypotenuse is always 1.\nSin is always the far side away from the angle (the vertical side). We call that the opposite side.\nCos is always the adjacent side (or horizontal side).\nIn a right triangle with angles 60 and 30, the shortest side is always 1/2 the hypotenuse, so in a unit triangle, it is just 1/2. You can use the pathagorean theorem to find that the longer side is the square root of (3/4), or (sqrt(3))/2.\nIn a right triangle with angles 45 and 45, the opposite and adjacent sides are equal, and we can use the pathagorean theorem to find that the sides are the square root of (1/2), or 1/(sqrt(2)).\n\n1. Sin 1/3 pi. This is the same as sin pi/3 which is a 60 degree angle. If you draw the triangle on a unit circle you would see that the opposite side is the longer side of a 90/60/30 triangle. We have seen above that the length is (sqrt(3))/2.\n\n2. Cos pi. Easy. pi is 180 degrees, so draw the unit circle. You see that it is just a striaght horizontal line going the other way so the answer is -1.\n\n3. cos pi/4 is a 45 degree angle. We know from above that both sides have to be 1/(sqrt(2)).\n\n4. sin pi/4. Same as #3.\n\n27. What is 315 degrees? Well draw your unit circle. Go, 90, then to 180, then to 270, then go 45 more degrees and you will end up at 315 degrees. Draw your triangle. We know that the hypotenuse is 1, so the coordinates will simply be, (cos 315, sin 315). Cos 315 is just a 90/45/45 triangle in the bottom right quadrant so the adjacent side is positive. The opposite is negative, so you end up with coordinates (1/(sqrt(2)), -1/(sqrt(2))). Do the same to solve the last question youeself.
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Apply math to real life.\nI remember when I was in high school and i thought that some of the aspects of math were useless and I would never use it.\nI was wrong, completely wrong.\nI have used ratios to determine how to increase machine production on a elemental scale.\nI use fractions and decimals to determine daily outputs and averages.\nI use percentages in calculating payrolls, have to pay those taxes.\n\nIhe list goes on and on, I use math everyday in one way or another.\n\nJust use daily activities to teach math and I wish my teachers would have taught math that way.
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Personally I would take Trig when I had time to devote to it. I took College Algebra, Chemistry, and Trig all at once and I have to tell you, trig never made any sense to me.
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You're supposed to print a table, right? The question is poorly written, so it's not clear, but I'll assume that's the goal.\n\nWell, it sounds like you can write your loop, so shouldn't you just print out the sine, cosine, and tangent of the angle in the body of the loop?  It's not clear what the stumbling block is.  You realize that there are built in functions that compute sine, cosine, etc.?
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Trigonometric functions can be found in all fields of mathematics, science and engineering. The unique aspect of mathematical functions is that in using higher mathematical techniques such as differentiation or integration, trigonomtric functions often feature in the solution. As a result, trigonometric functions can be found in all the fields listed above. Their use goes far beyond triangles!
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dude! engineering is nothing but mathematics. applied mathematics. what all u study in school is applied here. u might have thought where in futur would u need to use a progression, matrix or a trigonometrical equation. that place is named as engineering. every person knowingly or unknowingly use the mathematics in his life and never even think what the name of the subject might be where he is applying. \n\nevery human being is a inherent engineering and the applications are unknowingly engineering. let me give u an example. \n\nin kitchen, every mother knows that the tought stains on the utensils can be removed by applying some lime/venigar/ some other solution. this is nothing but chemical engineering.\nnow u may ask me for an application of mathematics.\nwhen u drive a car, we calculate the speed required to travel a known distance in a specified time like if u want to traverse a distance of 50 mile in 50 min , then one has to drive the car at a minimum of 60 miles an hr. this is nothing but application of mathematics in mechanical engineering.\n\ncalculation of bulb wattage for a desired amount of lighting is electrical engineering. \nthe calculation of the proprotions of cement and sand for a plastering a small patch on the wall is apllication in civil engineering.\ndo u need more examples than these.\nsee we may think that the above sited examples are just common mans applications and general perceptions. and yes, engineering is the same common mans perception , but the only difference is the way u deal it. \ngood day.
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Because of (one of) the definition(s) of sin and cos.\nWhich is: take a unit circle, and draw in any radius at some angle theta. Then sin theta = the y value, and cos theta = the x value. Those are obviously less than 1.\n\nOr you could just take a typical right angled triangle - the length of the opposite/adjacent sides are always less than the length of the hypotenuse.
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In this case involving trigonometric operation on angles, you will need to carry the error over to your operation results. What I mean by that is:\n\nYou have an angle known only to 1 degree of precision, i.e.\n\nθ = 32° ± 1°\n\nTherefore, when you compute Cos (32°) = 0.848 \n\nYou will also need to perform the trig operation including the error:\n\nCos(31°) = 0.857 and Cos(33°) = 0.839\n\nSo your measurement is 0.848 ± 0.009 or 0.85 ± 0.01 depending on how many significant digits you want to keep.
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my school asked us to do just one: the daily applications of geometry (with special emphasis on Similar Triangle, Trig and Pyth theorem)
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Open a trigonometry book!
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Try subjects that include Applied Trigonometry. My experience was in tool and die repair. Search metalworking topics, and other subject matter that actually USES trigonometry. This way it will be MUCH easier to relate to how and why trigonometry is useful.
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When I was first trying to do trigonometry problems like this, I found it helpful to draw a picture.\n\nDraw a horizontal line to represent the ground, and then put a vertical line to represent the radio tower.  We want to know the height of the tower, so label it "x".  The angle between the tower and the ground is 90 degrees, so label it too.\n\nNow draw a dot (or a little stick figure with a protracter if you feel like it) to the side of the tower, on the ground.  Label the line between the tower base and the dot "50", as it's 50 meters from the tower.\n\nNow draw a line between the dot and the top of the tower, representing the person sighting to the top and measuring the angle.  Lable the angle between this sight line and the tower top "67 degrees".\n\nYou now have a drawing of the triangle with two angles and one adjacent side known.  This should be enough to get you started picking the right trig function to apply here.\n\nIf that's not enough to get going, here's another hint: Remember the unit circle with a triangle and the sides labeled with "sin(theta)", "tan(theta)" etc?  Are there any similarities to your tower drawing?  I always found being able to draw that unit circle on my scratch paper at the beginning of a problem set or test helped immensely.\n\nGood luck.
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- GPS technology has matured into a resource that goes far beyond its original design goals. These days scientists, sportsmen, farmers, soldiers, pilots, surveyors, hikers, delivery drivers, sailors, dispatchers, lumberjacks, fire-fighters, and people from many other walks of life are using GPS in ways that make their work more productive, safer, and sometimes even easier. \n\n- In this section you will see a few examples of real-world applications of GPS. These applications fall into five broad categories. \n\n  -  Location - determining a basic position \n  -  Navigation - getting from one location to another \n  -  Tracking - monitoring the movement of people and things \n  -  Mapping - creating maps of the world \n  -  Timing - bringing precise timing to the world \n- Since its a broad topic hope it will help you.....!\n--------------------------
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In the US, Trig is normally considered as a high school level course, however, it is not a required course to graduate. I believe Algebra is the highest of the high school math courses that are required for graduation, although some schools may still only require Geometry.\nIn the US the typical sequence for math courses is Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry and then Calculus (which is usually taken at the high school level as Pre-Calculus, but may also be taken as full "AP" Calculus, where the "AP" stands for "Advanced Placement" and means that the student can get University-level credit for that course when they go to College).
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High School or College Physics?\nTrigonometry or Calculus based Physics?\n\nWith a little detail, I may be able to answer.\n(Former college Physics major)\n\nIn the mean time, here's a google search that might get you started.\nhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2005-49,GGLR:en&q=%22study+physics%22