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Eye Height Level Found from Visual Angle 2009-08-07
From Jolie:
Hello, I am trying to figure out what height from the ground a person's eyes are if they have a 12 degree visual angle to a screen that is 58cm away from their eyes? Thank you.
Answered by Janice Cotcher.
Angle of depression 2009-02-18
From Meeka:
An aircraft flying at an altitude of 2000m is approaching an airport. If the angle of depression of the airport is 5 degrees, what is the distance from the plane to the airport measured along the ground? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a kilometer.
Answered by Robert Dawson.
A security camera 2008-09-07
From Rita:
A security camera in a neighborhhod carnival is mounted on a wall 9 feet above the floor inside a video gallery. What angle of depression should be used if the camera is to be directed to a spot 6 feet above the floor and 12 feet from the wall?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Harley Weston.
Angle of depression to a football 2007-08-15
From Tosin:
The angle of depression to a football from the top of building 10m high is 17 degrees. Find the distance of the ball from the foot of the building.
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Angle of depression 2007-07-23
From joyce:
hello, here is my problem......
As you stand on a bridge w/c is 100 ft. above the water you are looking @ an approaching barge. If the A of top of the front of the bridge is 29.04 degrees and the angle of depression of the rear is 17.36 degrees . Find the length of the barge?

Answered by Harley Weston.
Angle of depression (declination) between sailboat observations 2007-07-18
From Joyce:
From a cliff 150 ft above a lake, we see a boat sailing directly towards us. The angle of depression of the boat is seen to be 5 degrees and 7 inches and 11 degrees and 18 inches. Find the distance sailed between observations.
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
The two towers (angles of elevation trigonometry) 2007-07-14
From joyce:
The angle of elevation of tower B from the top of tower A is 28 degrees and the angle of elevation of the top of tower A from the base is 46 degrees Find the height of tower A if tower B is 120 m high?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Angles of depression 2007-06-13
From Phonda:
The pilot of a small private plane can look forward and see the control tower for a small airstrip. Beyond that is a large factory that is 3 milies from the airstrip. The angles of depression are 12.5 degrees and 4.8 degrees respectively. Find the airplane's altitude, to the nearest ten feet.
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Angle of Elevation 2007-05-10
From Micky:
Two Buildings are on opposite sides of a street 40 feet wide. The taller of the two buildings is 580 feet tall. The angle of depression from the top of the tallest building to the shorter building across the street is 57 degrees. Find the height of the shorter building.
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
The angle of depression 2007-04-14
From Mary-Beth:
Two towers are 30 m apart. From the 15th floor, 40 m up, find the angle of depression to the base of the taller tower? I think the answer is 53, but the answer book says 37.
Answered by Penny Nom.
Angles of depression 2007-03-21
From romaine:
a woman of height 1.4m standing on top of a building of height 34.6m veiws a tree some distance away. she observes that the angle of depression of the bottom of the tree is 35 degrees, and the angle of depression of the top of the tree is 29 degrees. assume that the building and the tree is on level ground.
(a) calculate the distance of the woman from the top of the tree measured along her line of sight.
(b) determine the height of the tree.

Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Angles of elevation and depression 2004-05-18
From Anjum:
what is the difference between an angle of elevation and angle of depression?
Answered by Penny Nom.
 
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