HOW TO SURVIVE PHYSICS CASUALLY AND NOT AS CASUALTY

Pay close attention to the lectures of your instructor.

Have a regular study habit.
Yield or submit to the demands of the subject by doing the assignments.
Search for additional lecture aids in the library and the internet.
Invite your classmates to study with you before the major exams
Come to class physically and mentally prepared.
Study hard, and pray hard principle.

SPECIAL WORD TO PHYSICS STUDENTS
Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from them.. Wisdom is the principal
thing: therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote
you; she will bring you honor, when you remember her. A crown of glory she will deliver you.
Proverbs 4:5-9

TRIGONOMETRY
Trigonometry : Deals with the relationship among angles and sides of triangles.
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B A

Sin = BC/AC cos = AB/AC tan = BC/AB
= the angle included between side AB of the triangle and its hypotenuse AC.
Sin = is the ratio between the side BC of the triangle opposite to and the hypotenuse AC.
cos = is the ratio between the side AB of the triangle adjacent to the and the hypotenuse AC
tan = is the ration between the side BC opposite to the and the side AB adjacent to the .


Results:

tan

TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTION
Suppose we know the length of the side b and the angle in the right triangle of the given figurte and
wish to find the lengths of the side a and c.


c
a
b
tan sin cos bc
PHYTAGOREAN THEOREM the square of the longest side in a right triangle is equal to the sum of the
square of the two shorter sides.
A

c
b


C B
a

SINE LAW
It is an equation stating the proportionality of the sides and their corresponding angles which can be
used to solve the missing dimensions of a non-right triangle.




A

B c

C B
A

COSINE LAW
It is an equation stating the proportionality of the sides and their corresponding angles which can be
used to solve the missing dimensions of a non-right triangle.

cos

cos

cos
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EXCERCISES
1. Given: a = 5 b = 12 c = 13
Prove that the given sides of the triangle are parts of a right triangle
2. A boat heads east at 10 mi/hr in a river that flows south at 3.o mi/hr. What is the boats velocity
relative to the earth?
3. A missile is launched at an angle of

with respect to the horizontal. It travels in a straight line

over level terrain for two minutes and its average speed is 6000 mi/hr, what is its altitude?
4. A television antenna is on the roof of a building. From a point on the ground 36.0ft from the building,
the angle of elevation of the top and the bottom of the antenna are

and

, espetively. How tall is

the antenna?
5. Given two angles and one side
C = 6 A =

B =

Find the two other sides a and b and the third angle C.