I used COS to measure the height of some of our fir trees in our yard. We have 2 dozen+ fir trees in our yard. I was

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Jun 16, 2021
12:04:18pm

Zenoch All-American

I used COS to measure the height of some of our fir trees in our yard. We have 2 dozen+ fir trees in our yard. I was

curious how tall they are. So I measured the distance of a point to the base of the tree. Then by estimating the angle from that point to the top of the tree I got the angle. By using COS I was able to get the estimate of the height. It came out to about 135 feet tall for the one tree I measured.

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Zenoch

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Have you ever used sin, tan or cos in real life?

Mrs Featerbottom

6/16/21 11:53am

Huh?

OmahaThunderCoug

6/16/21 11:54am

I have only really used sin.

RSL

6/16/21 11:54am

Some nice tans have caused me some sin

mudpupper

6/16/21 12:00pm

tan cos sin

303coug

6/16/21 12:15pm

Not always

mudpupper

6/16/21 12:27pm

ive used sin in a variety of ways. both good and bad.

6/16/21 11:54am

Yes

scottpete

6/16/21 11:54am

Soh Cah Toa, maybe once a month.

slappy

6/16/21 11:55am

when helping a middle schooler with geometry

6/16/21 11:56am

yes. measuring straight-line distance using lat/long from 2 geographic points

LeonMarek

6/16/21 11:56am

This is where I used it for work. It was used for finding other nearby clients

Breaded Hamster

6/16/21 12:58pm

Not often, but yes. Right triangle math is useful at times

rggee

6/16/21 11:56am

Yes sir (maam?). Pinball shot angles

TNT

6/16/21 11:56am

Yes, all the time when flying and weaponeering

6/16/21 11:57am

I sin all the time and I tan at the beach but I'm not into cosplay.

ordinary tri guy

6/16/21 11:57am

Who doesn’t use these is the bigger question.

6/16/21 11:58am

Absolutely, comes up often in engineering professions.

Setpoint

6/16/21 12:01pm

Is work 'real life' though?

rggee

6/16/21 12:02pm

Or if you've ever built something.

kccougar

6/16/21 12:05pm

Yep. pretty much literally every time I build something the basic

BYUMizzou

6/16/21 12:21pm

Yes, relatively frequently. All math has real life application somewhere.

MetaLearner

6/16/21 12:01pm

Yes, but I had to relearn it all for the job.

ReyOso

6/16/21 12:02pm

Yes, for sure, how else do you know how big of a box you need?

TomPetty

6/16/21 12:02pm

I use them all the time to figure out triangles and angles

Pangare

6/16/21 12:02pm

I know how to use them, just haven't ever used them.

Mrs Featerbottom

6/16/21 12:05pm

I used COS to measure the height of some of our fir trees in our yard. We have 2 dozen+ fir trees in our yard. I was

Zenoch

6/16/21 12:04pm

Wouldn't that be TAN? Knowing the angle and the adjacent length, calc opposite

deejo

6/16/21 12:16pm

Whichever one it is. It's been several years since I did the calculations

Zenoch

6/16/21 12:32pm

All the time. It's basic geometry.

kccougar

6/16/21 12:04pm

Never. It's basic geometry.

Sea Chicken

6/16/21 12:33pm

They're embedded in everything around you.

whirl

6/16/21 12:04pm

Yeah, I built a bed and needed it to figure out an angle.

RyneK

6/16/21 12:06pm

All the time. I have to figure out the degrees of angles for work.

N8Dawg

6/16/21 12:07pm

A lot of my work is based on imaginary numbers and sin, cos, and Tan trig

novacoug1

6/16/21 12:13pm

imaginary numbers..... Do you work for a government finance agency?

Pangare

6/16/21 12:21pm

Of course. Quite a bit.

Northwest Cougar

6/16/21 12:13pm

Pretty often

LaserCoug

6/16/21 12:14pm

Yes. I was building a ladder for a tree house ...

Chareth Cutestory

6/16/21 12:17pm

No

6/16/21 12:27pm

Every single day at work

Pickett

6/16/21 12:29pm

Almost everyday, sometimes hidden in the math. Rigid body motion has it baked in

AggieWeekendCougar

6/16/21 12:38pm

YES, but kind of indirectly... Use FFT analysis alot, but honestly MATLAB is

Xenon

6/16/21 12:43pm

Yes, frequently. It helps in engineering.

thewaterboy

6/16/21 12:46pm

An unlikely use case for trig

TJ06

6/16/21 1:43pm

Nope, only when I get off on a tangent speaking...

BYU Grounds

6/16/21 4:40pm

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