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An angle is a measure of a turn, measured in degrees or °. There are 360° in a full turn. You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor. An angle less than 90° is acute.
Degrees (Angles) We can measure Angles in Degrees. There are 360 degrees in one Full Rotation (one complete circle around). Angles can also be measured in Radians. (Note: "Degree" is also used for Temperature, but here we talk about Angles)
Six different types of angles based on degrees. An acute angle is less than 90 degrees and obtuse angle is more than 90 degrees. Linear Pair of Angles. Positive and Negative angles at BYJU’S.
- Where Do Degrees Come from?
- Basing Mathematics on The Sun Seems Perfectly Reasonable
- Radians Rule, Degrees Drool
- Radians: The Unselfish Choice
- What’s in A Name?
- Using Radians
- Radian Example 1: Wheels of The Bus
- Radian Example 2: Sin
- So What’s The Point?
- Other Posts in This Series
Before numbers and language we had the stars. Ancient civilizations used astronomy to mark the seasons, predict the future, and appease the gods (when making human sacrifices, they’d better be on time). How is this relevant to angles? Well, bub, riddle me this: isn’t it strange that a circle has 360 degrees and a year has 365 days?And isn’t it weir...
Earth lucked out: ~360 is a great number of days to have in a year. But it does seem arbitrary: on Mars we’d have roughly ~680 degrees in a circle, for the longer Martian year. And in parts of Europe they’ve used gradians, where you divide a circle into 400 pieces. Many explanations stop here saying, “Well, the degree is arbitrary but we need to pi...
A degree is the amount I, an observer, need to tilt my head to see you, the mover. It’s a tad self-centered, don’t you think? Suppose you saw a friend go running on a large track: Selfish, right? That’s how we do math!We write equations in terms of “Hey, how far did I turn my head see that planet/pendulum/wheel move?”. I bet you’ve never bothered t...
Much of physics (and life!) involves leaving your reference frame and seeing things from another’s viewpoint. Instead of wondering how far we tilted our heads, consider how far the other person moved. Degrees measure angles by how far we tilted our heads. Radians measure angles by distance traveled. But absolute distance isn’t that useful, since go...
Radians are a count of distance in terms of “radius units”, and I think of “radian” as shorthand for that concept. Strictly speaking, radians are just a number like 1.5 or 73, and don’t have any units (in the calculation “radians = distance traveled / radius”, we see length is divided by length, so any units would cancel). But practically speaking,...
I’m still getting used to thinking in radians. But we encounter the concept of “mover’s distance” quite a bit: 1. We use “rotations per minute” not “degrees per second” when measuring certain rotational speeds. This is a shift towards the mover’s reference point (“How many laps has it gone?”) and away from an arbitrary degree measure. 2. When a sat...
Let’s try a real example: you have a bus with wheels of radius 2 meters (it’s a monster truck bus). I’ll say how fast the wheels are turning and you say how fast the bus is moving. Ready? “The wheels are turning 2000 degrees per second”. You’d think: 1. Ok, the wheels are going 2000 degrees per second. That means it’s turning 2000/360 or 5 and 5/9t...
Time for a beefier example. Calculus is about many things, and one is what happens when numbers get really big or really small. Choose a number of degrees (x), and put sin(x) into your calculator: When you make x small, like .01, sin(x) gets small as well. And the ratio of sin(x)/x seems to be about .017 — what does that mean? Even stranger, what d...
Degrees have their place: in our own lives, we’re the focal point and want to see how things affect us. How much do I tilt my telescope, spin my snowboard, or turn my steering wheel? With natural laws, we’re an observer describing the motion of others. Radians are about them, not us. It took me many years to realize that: 1. Degrees are arbitrary b...
Parts of an Angle. The corner point of an angle is called the vertex. And the two straight sides are called arms. The angle is the amount of turn between each arm. How to Label Angles. There are two main ways to label angles: 1. give the angle a name, usually a lower-case letter like a or b, or sometimes a Greek letter like α (alpha) or θ (theta)
Angles are formed when two rays intersect at a point. The 'opening' between these two rays is called an 'angle' which is represented by the symbol ∠. Angles are usually measured in degrees and are expressed as 60°, 90°, and so on.
The difference between an angle and a complete angle is termed the explement of the angle or conjugate of an angle.
