Applications of

Trigonometry
Submitted by Dipika chauhan Roll no 30

What is Trigonometry?
O Trigonometry is a methodology for finding some unknown

elements of a triangle provided the data includes a sufficient amount of linear and angular measurements to define a shape uniquely.

O For example, two sides a and b of a triangle and the angle

they include define the triangle uniquely. The third side c can then be found from the Law of Cosines while the angles and are determined from the Law of Sines.

O Trigonometry is derived from Greek words trignon,

meaning "triangle" and metron, meaning "measure.

History of Trigonometry
The Babylonian astronomers (1900 BC) kept detailed records on the rising and setting of stars, the motion of the planets, and the solar and lunar eclipses, all of which required familiarity with angular distances measured on the celestial sphere. Some have even asserted that the ancient Babylonians had a table of secants. The Egyptians used a primitive form of trigonometry for building pyramids in the 2nd millennium BC.

 The next significant developments of trigonometry were in India. Influential works from the 4th5th century, known as the Siddhantas first defined the sine as the modern relationship between half an angle and half a chord, while also defining the cosine, versine, and inverse sine.
Soon afterwards, another Indian mathematician and astronomer, Aryabhata , collected and expanded upon the developments in his work, Aryabhatiya. The Siddhantas and the Aryabhatiya contain the earliest surviving tables of sine values and versine (1 cosine) values.

Trigonometry Formulae & their Full forms..

Sin(sine)-perpendicular/hypotenuse Cos(cosine)-base/hypotenuse Tan(tangent)-perpendicular/base Cosec(cosecant)hypotenuse/perpendicular Sec(secant)-hypotenuse/base Cot(cotangent)-base/perpendicular

Applications of Trigonometry
There is an enormous number of applications of trigonometry and trigonometric functions. For instance, the technique of triangulation is used in astronomy to measure the distance to nearby stars, in geography to measure distances between landmarks, and in satellite navigation systems. The sine and cosine functions are fundamental to the theory of periodic functions such as those that describe sound and light waves. In the following slides, we will learn what is line of sight, angle of elevation, angle of depression, and also solve some problems related to trigonometry using trigonometric ratios.

Line of Sight

Suppose a boy is looking at a bird on a tree, so the line joining the eye of the boy and the bird is called the Line of Sight.

Angle of Elevation
Angle of Elevation

Lets take the same case again that a boy is looking at a bird on a tree. The angle which the line of sight makes with a horizontal line drawn away from the eyes is called the angle of elevation.

Angle of Depression
Angle of Depression

Now if we consider that the bird is looking at the boy, then the angle between the birds line of sight and horizontal line drawn from its eyes is called the Angle of Depression.

Lets now solve some examples

O Following are some very simple examples of the

application of trigonometry.
O In the first example, you have to find the distance of

a man from the building as well as the distance between him and the top of the tower.
O In the second example, you have to find

Examples
O A man is standing at a distance from a building of height 30 m. The

angle of elevation from the mans eyes to the top of the tower is 45 degrees. Find the distance of the man from the building as well as the distance between him and the top of the tower.
A
30 m C (man) 45 B

O Distance (BC)
tan45 = 1 = AB/BC = 30/BC BC = 30 m

Therefore, the distance between the man and the tower is 30 meters.
O Now, Finding AC
sin45 = 1/2 = 30/AC AC = 30 2 meters

Thus, the distance between the man and the top of the tower is 30 2 meters.

O A man in a car is looking at the top of a tree, which is 40 m

from him. Find the distance between the man and the top of the tree, if the angle of elevation is 30 degrees.
A

30 C (car) 40 m B

cos30 = 3 / 2 = 40 / AC AC = 80 / 3

Therefore, distance between the man and the top of the tree is 80 / 3 meters.