Monday, November 16, 2009

Taylor #13

This week we mostly reviewed the stuff we had previously learned in the chapter. We also learned about the law of cosines. I feel like I understand it. I think the only trouble I am having with it is sometimes when I type it into the calculator I get an error over and over again.
The only thing to using law of cosines is memorizing the formula
FORMULA FOR LAW OF COSINES
(opposite leg)²=(adjacent leg)² + (other leg)² - 2(adjacent leg)(adjacent leg)cos°
And typing it into the calculator also has some part of answering the equation
When typing in an inverse you must put parenthesis around the both the nominator and the denominator
I know things like this are what is confusing most people
As far as what I don’t understand there really isn’t much
Basically what gets me tripped up is when we get those weird problems on homework that look and sound nothing like anything we have learned but there really isn’t much anyone else can do to to help me with this its more of a matter of working them out as best as I can.
The other thing is I get caught up on the finer details of problems. In other words, things like buttons used when typing into calculator are what get me
So if anyone has any tricks to remember things that are little details any little advice could help
THANKS!

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