Sunday, January 27, 2013

Week 3 Right Triangle Trigonometry

Week 3
I have never understood Sine Cosine or Tangent
Soh Cah Toa
After taking geometry in 8th grade I prayed I wouldn't meet these again but in Chapter 4 I had no choice
With the help of Khan Academy I understand this concept 100%

Trying to find the measure of side X....?
Opposite= Y
Adjacent= 5 
The side opposite to the 30 degree angle is 1/2 the length of the hypotenuse
I would use Tangent because it is opposite over adjacent 
(TOA o stands for opposite and a stands for Adjacent)


After this week we didn't do much with triangle trigonometry but looking at the videos each week refreshes my memory on that concept 
This week was more of a laid back week because the videos from my Khan academy app explained everything slowly allowing me to understand the concept better. 









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