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Maple Atheist
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Maple Atheist asked in Science & MathematicsMathematics · 7 years ago

Need help with a weird algebra problem?

Working on statics, I've come to a derivation that I can't solve. I'm fairly sure this is correct:

880sin@ - 400tan@ = 196

Aaaaand now I'm stuck. Can anyone help?

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  • billrussell42
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    7 years ago
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    880sinθ – 400tanθ = 196

    I don't see how this can be solved except by numerical methods, but I'm not good at trig.

    A check with excel yields θ = 0.4723 rad or 27.06º

    and other solutions at θ = 0.8761 rad or 50.20º

    and θ = 2.9884 rad or 171.22º

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