1 / 2

Law of Cosines

Law of Cosines. Formula: c 2 = a 2 + b 2 – 2*a*b* cosC Law of Cosines Used in the Following Situations: SAS or SSS Great in Real-Life Applications for Indirect Measurement. Law of Cosines. Applications:

betty
Download Presentation

Law of Cosines

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Law of Cosines • Formula: • c2 = a2 + b2 – 2*a*b*cosC • Law of Cosines Used in the Following Situations: • SAS or SSS • Great in Real-Life Applications for Indirect Measurement

  2. Law of Cosines • Applications: • A baseball player in center field is positioned approximately 330 feet from a television camera behind home plate. • The batter hits a fly ball that is caught 420 feet away by the same center fielder • If the camera turned at an angle of 8 degrees to follow the path of the ball, how far did the center fielder have to run to make the catch?

More Related