Comments on: While fishing, you get bored and start to swing a sinker weight around in a circle below you on a 0.21 m piece http://anglingweather.com/blog/while-fishing-you-get-bored-and-start-to-swing-a-sinker-weight-around-in-a-circle-below-you-on-a-021-m-piece/ Tue, 22 May 2012 03:56:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Snottywong http://anglingweather.com/blog/while-fishing-you-get-bored-and-start-to-swing-a-sinker-weight-around-in-a-circle-below-you-on-a-021-m-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-4186 Snottywong Tue, 19 May 2009 02:30:57 +0000 http://anglingweather.com/blog/while-fishing-you-get-bored-and-start-to-swing-a-sinker-weight-around-in-a-circle-below-you-on-a-021-m-piece/#comment-4186 Not enough info. You need some information about the size of the circle. If you were given some information about the size of the circle from which you could figure out the radius of the circle, then you could construct a right triangle. 0.21 m would be the hypotenuse, the radius of the circle would be the horizontal dimension, and the angle that the fishing line would make with the vertical would be: sin(radius/0.21) You'd use sin because sin is "opposite over hypotenuse", which in this case is "horizontal over hypotenuse". Not enough info.

You need some information about the size of the circle.

If you were given some information about the size of the circle from which you could figure out the radius of the circle, then you could construct a right triangle. 0.21 m would be the hypotenuse, the radius of the circle would be the horizontal dimension, and the angle that the fishing line would make with the vertical would be:

sin(radius/0.21)

You’d use sin because sin is “opposite over hypotenuse”, which in this case is “horizontal over hypotenuse”.

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