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physics
how do you indirectly measure an object? like a tall flagpole?
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I used a tangent, where we had a piece of paper with an angle thing on it, like a p... oh I can't think of it, that thing that has all those angles on it, and a straw across the top of the paper, where you look through the straw up at the top of the pole or whatever. There's a triangle at the end of a string attached to the straw, and the angle that the triangle goes to give you an angle where you use this formula with the person's height and stuff. Sorry if this isn't specific, but I'm sure you can tell your teacher or someone the description and get the actual name. Hope I helped a little bit. : )
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well i did this lab in my physics class.
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^ thats a link to the picture of the lab paper we recieved.
you would use sine, cosine, and tangent, depending on which measurements you have.
im not sure if this will help much, but i hope it does.
sine would be opposite over hypotenuse
cosine would be opposite over adjacent
tangent would be opposite over hypotenuse
let me know if this makes no sense, i can try to explain it differently.
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