Triangulation

Made this for my Science ISU, comment on if it is helpful...

Uploaded Feb 21 2007

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[Magikistik]

How do I choose the scale? If you did 1cm=10m, there would be a different outcome in the distance. Sorry if this is dumb, just learning triangulation.

[shibbiness]

@Magikistik You can choose the scale to be whatever you want, depending on how big your paper is. It doesn't matter what you choose as long as your consistent.

[Magikistik]

@shibbiness what do you mean by consistent, I mean if I chose 1m i would get 40m and if I chose 2m I would get 80m. I still don't understand how to get the scale

[shibbiness]

@Magikistik It doesnt matter what your scale is. Pretend you measured your baseline to be 10m. You can choose your scale to be 5cm per m. Therefore your baseline will be 50cm. However the actual distance from the baseline to the top of the triangle will be different every time you change the scale. That's the distance you have to measure...

[jigmesam]

Thanks, I can finally range in my neighbour's window. Been taking potshots at him all week and I can't fucking hit him! ;)

[ballerbros]

wow this is frickin brilliant thank you sir u helped me pass highschool

[SUPERmegaAWESOME135]

thanks really helpful

[dokuya226]

@Luckysayshello Yes parallel was not the correct word to use and there was no need to drop a line down and make a 90 degree angle to get the measurement because it can be done much simpler the way that I described it.

[Luckysayshello]

@dokuya226 ok ok...u meant not to draw...i thot u said to reason to know the distance....nice simplication. But I was right on the "parellel" thing..:-D

[dokuya226]

@Luckysayshello What you are doing is making a line and measuring it. At each end you establish the angle to the object that you want to find the distance too. With that information you make a map to the scale that you established with the line that you measured, drawing that line to scale. At each end you draw the lines out at the angles measured and where they intersect is where the object is. Now with the scale that you created you can measure the distance from anywhere on your map.

[Luckysayshello]

@dokuya226 dude..what if he has to measure distance between his house and tree??? he will have to go a little bit left of his house n a little bit of right in order to imagine the line...but he has to find distance from his house to tree...not from right point to tree or left point from tree....n that thing about parralel...then how can a bloddy vertical tree be parralel to a horizontal line???? "food for thought"

[Luckysayshello]

@redlightrecords its helps by not making u walk to the tree n count ur footsteps...