Just words for ratios of the sides of a right triangle.
Sine is the opposite/ hypotenuse
Cosine is the adjacent/ hypotenuse
Tangent is the opposite/ adjacent
These are the basics of Trigonometry which is used heavily in surveying and engineering.
We will leave it there. What you dont know wont hurt you. Or give you a headache.
Where's Mathman? Did you giys run him off? He would be all over this.
Why not use geometry to figure all those out instead of trig?
