Angles Of Elevation & Depression | Trigonometry | Maths | FuseSchool

SOHCAHTOA, Pythagoras, sine rule and cosine rule and all things trigonometry actually have a lot of uses in “real life”.

Such as working out distances to things, heights of buildings and mountains, navigation at sea. An important part of “useful” trigonometry are angles of elevation and depression. If you’re standing and looking up at an object, the angle from your horizontal line of sight up to the object is the angle of elevation.

Whereas if you’re looking down at an object, the angle between your horizontal sight line and the object is known as the angle of depression. People often make a mistake as to which angle is the angle of depression, so be careful with it.

We then use all of our trigonometry skills to solve problems including angles of elevation and depression.

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[ikonicblast]

who else here a day before a math exam

[waffleamv_]

me: oh i actually understand this
*when marking the questions*
her: did you notice that the angle of depression is here not here
me: *internal screaming*

[seeanagraham]

I was so bad at math at first but day by day it helped me a lot

[kerserzthescientist]

Ha depression. I know it too well... #StressedandDepressed

[dhruvraghavan]

This was really helpful... thanks a lot! Do u do this for Physics, Chemistry, BUsiness Studies and ICT as well?

[m_z_a_w_c]

trigonometry helps you find out if the height is lethal or not

[thunderlol]

Please make a video on Bearings...(egBearing of B from A)Like where is the angles??

[vedantsinha]

Best Animation....

Easy to understand.... Thanks.

[harith]

Can you do a next video about this chapter and also about trigonometry graph

[neil]

These r just simple basics.... could u make a video on angle of depression of a reflection of a cloud...sums like that I mean

[madicineborg]

This was rather clear but it was not very detailed so it is harder to understand.

[phanuelbanda]

when dealing with trigonometry is it always to use SOHCAHTOA

[HITSTARARZZ]

Thank u so much we had a project on this u helped us a loy

[ronellabrowne]

To short😓😭😭😭, can't figure out when to use which rule

[caitlinrodrigue]

can i just say how much i love her accent?

[minemanyt]

what I came here to learn...*angle of elevation and angle of depression* what i learnt...*DEPRESSION*

[mitchellkehler]

What app do you use to make the animation

[janellynwoo]

She looks like Detective Beckett from Castle

[nawfaljafri]

i don't think i understood anything

[udayyadav]

Root 3 value is 1.73 in calculator is 1.75