“Week 9” in math 10
What I learned in “week 9: of math 10.
In this week of math we have finished our polynomials math test and are preparing for the midterm next week.
Am I slightly worried? Of course. Do I think I understand the concepts? I’m hopeful.
This blog post is going to slightly deferent then the others, due to the fact we are simply just reviewing our previous concepts.
I plan to keep this blog post short and sweet as I need to get back to studying and other last minute projects from my other classes. (Yay!)
In this blog post I am going to teach you how to find out what sides are: opposite, adjacent and the hypotenuse on a right angle triangle and also some tips and tricks to remember.
I know I know it is kind of a step in the wrong direction. but I believe it might be helpful to learn.
As always lets start with our question:
Perfect, lets start off with finding the easiest side; the Hypotenuse.
To find the hypotenuse all you need to do is look for the longest angled side.
Next lets find the opposite side. to find the opposite side, all you need to do is look for the side that is farthest away, or in other words the opposite.
Awesome! Now all we need to do is find the adjacent side. To find the Adjacent side you have to look for the side that is well, adjacent to the angle. (excluding the hypotenuse)
Now I can teach you a little trick to remember the combination for all of them. The trick goes like this:
Yeah, looks like gibberish doesn’t it? The first step to deconstructing this is to look at the first letters. S, C and T. S stands for Sine, C stands for cosine and T stands for Tangent.
And when you look at the other you might notice they match with opposite, adjacent and hypotenuse. In reality Soh Cah Toa is not gibberish and is instead the formula for solving for certain sides of a right angle triangle.
I hope you understand trigonometry just a little bit better after reading this.
If you don’t understand this feel free to comment and i will see if I can help you.
If you want to take this just a bit further make sure to check out this blog post: “week 4” in math 10
All images were made by me.
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