You don't have the hypotenuse of the smaller triangle because you don't know
where the cylinder pin is located on the lift arm.
That's why I said a bit more information is needed to do the trig and get a
correct answer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Wilhelmy" <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Shop-Talk List" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] math wizards ??? come here
> use a sine function, not a tangent, since you have the hypotenuse and
> the side opposite the angle given.
> side note: tan and sine of relatively small angles are just about
> the same number since tan = sin/cos and cos of small angles is close
> to 1.0
>
> -Roland
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