Sunday, October 2, 2011

2-Dimensional Kinematics

In class, Mr. Blake taught us the BUREKU Technique.  Mr. Blake doesn't like diagonal lines, so in order to find the velocity of the diagonal line he must...wataaaaa!...break the diagonal line into a horizontal and vertical line.  The BUREKU Technique makes life much, much easier.  We also learned about SOH-CAH-TOA this week.  SOH-CAH-TOA is used to find the hypotenuse, opposite, or adjacent variables of a triangle.  As you can see on my picture, there is a triangle with the labeled parts.  The hypotenuse is the diagonal line of the triangle, the adjacent line is the line that is inline with the angle given (marked with a curved line), and the opposite line is the line opposite of this same angle.  To figure out lengths of these lines, we are given 3 different equations:
SOH- Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse
CAH- Cos = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
TOA- Tan = Opposite/Adjacent
You must plug in the right equations to fit the situation to find your values.  These are some ways to solve for 2-Dimensional Kinematics!

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