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Head First Physics
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Head First Physics

by Heather Lang
September 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
942 pages
26h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9. Triangles, Trig and Trajectories: Going two-dimensional

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So you can deal with one dimension. But what about real life? Real things don’t just go up or down - they go sideways too! But never fear - you’re about to gain a whole new bunch of trigonometry superpowers that’ll see you spotting right-angled triangles wherever you go and using them to reduce complicated-looking problems into simpler ones that you can already do.

Camelot - we have a problem!

The Head First castle is in imminent danger! Back when it was built, the longest ladder available from Sieges-R-Us was 15.0 m long. So the castle was designed with a moat 15.0 m wide and a wall 15.0 m high, making it impossible for anyone to put a ladder from the edge of the moat to the top of the wall.

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But the Sieges-R-Us website has just been updated with a new top of the range 25.0 m ladder. It’s only a matter of time before someone comes to attack your castle armed with the new ladder, and your current defense system just isn’t big enough...

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If you don’t act quickly, someone will turn up with the new ladder, and you’ll be toast. It’s ...

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