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Absolute Magnitude of a Star - with parallax

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Triangulation (surveying)

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Perimeter of a Regular polygon

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Worksheet 334

In a video game design, a map shows the location of other characters relative to the player, who is situated at the origin, and the direction they are facing. A character currently shows on the map at coordinates (-3, 5). If the player rotates counterclockwise by 20 degrees, then the objects in the map will correspondingly rotate 20 degrees clockwise. Find the new coordinates of the character.

To rotate the position of the character, we can imagine it as a point on a circle, and we will change the angle of the point by 20 degrees. To do so, we first need to find the radius of this circle and the original angle.

Drawing a right triangle inside the circle, we can find the radius using the Pythagorean Theorem:

Pythagorean theorem (right triangle)

To find the angle, we need to decide first if we are going to find the acute angle of the triangle, the reference angle, or if we are going to find the angle measured in standard position. While either approach will work, in this case we will do the latter. By applying the cosine function and using our given information we get

Cosine function
Subtraction

While there are two angles that have this cosine value, the angle of 120.964 degrees is in the second quadrant as desired, so it is the angle we were looking for.

Rotating the point clockwise by 20 degrees, the angle of the point will decrease to 100.964 degrees. We can then evaluate the coordinates of the rotated point

For x axis:

Cosine function

For y axis:

Sine function

The coordinates of the character on the rotated map will be (-1.109, 5.725)

Reference : PreCalculus: An Investigation of Functions,Edition 1.4 © 2014 David Lippman and Melonie Rasmussen
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Length of an arc of a circle (central angle in radians)

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Length of an Arc of a Circle

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Relation between the sides, the dinstances of the orthocenter from the vertices and the circumradius of a triangle

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Relation between internal bisectors of angles A, B, and C of a triangle and its sides

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Area of rhombus (by diagonals)

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Euler line (distance between the centroid and the circumcenter of a triangle)

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Law of cosines

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Spherical Law of Cosines

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Pythagorean theorem (right triangle)

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Length of internal bisector of an angle in triangle in relation to the opposite segments

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Law of tangents for the triangles

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Orthodiagonal quadrilateral (the sum of the squares of two opposite sides)

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Tangent of the difference of two angles (Bhāskara formula)

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Tangent of the sum of two angles (Bhāskara formula)

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Parallelogram area ( diagonals' angle)

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Area of a Square

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Morley's trisector theorem

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Law of sines ( related to the sides of the triangle)

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Napoleon's theorem

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