Student move in the second period to math room staying in groups or U shape .

Example 1:
From a point 20m .far from the base of a house ,the measure of the angle of
elevation of the top of the house is 400 .Find the height of the house .
Solution
A
AB
tan 40 =
20
AB = 20 ×tan 40 =16 .78 ≈17 m

C 400 B
20 m
Example 2 :
From the top of a tower of height 50 m ,a man found that the angle of depression of a
car is 270 ,Find the distance between the car and the base of the tower .

50 A
tan 27 = 27 0
BC
50
BC = = 98 .13 ≈ 98 m. 50 m
tan 27

270
C B
Resources :
1.school book .
2.Internet (Mr. math – angle of elevation and angle of depression).
3.evaluaion book .

Work sheet
Attached paper to page 5
 Remember ; Calculator are permitted

opposite adjacent opposite

Sin θ = , Cos θ = , Tan θ =
hypotenuse hypotenuse adjacent

North

West East

Angle of elevation Angle of depression

South
1) Use the following figures find the length marked by ?

120 m ?
? 15km
?

20 m ? 700

B C

2) From the top of a hill ,a man found that the depression angles of the top and the
base of a house are15º, 26º respectively .If the height of the house is 20 m , calculate the
height op the hill?

3) At a certain time the depression angles of two cars were measured from a flying
airplane 600 m high ,and found to be 450 ,300 respectively .if the observer was in the same
vertical plane containing the two cars find the distance between the two cars?

4) from a point on the ground the elevation angle of the top of a tower was 340 , when
the observer walked on a horizontal straight line towards the base a distance of 62 m ,he found
that the measure of the elevation angle of the top of the tower became 510 . find the height of
the tower to the nearest meter ?

5) From a point A on a side of a river ,a man observed a house at appoint B on the

other side of the river at 200 north of east .when he walked a distance of 300 m , parallel to the
side of the river towards the east he arrived to a point C from where he found that the point B
became at a direction 460 north of east .find the width of the river to the nearest meter ,knowing
that the two sides of the river are parallel and the points A,B and C are in the same horizontal
plane .

Attached paper to page 5