i am looking for the law of sines called triangulation and how it can be used by the coast guard to find lost?

Question

i am looking for info on how would the coast guard could find someone lost at sea using triangulation

Answer 1

The act of triangulation uses the law of sines, but it is not itself a law of sines. I refer you to the picture and caption on the linked page.

Answer 2

the law of sines is as simple as this:
Sin(a)/A = sin(b)/B = sin(c)/C

where little letters are the angle and capital letters are the length of triangle sides.

How coastguards can use this to find the lost is actually more of a physics problem, but basically by measuring the strength of the current, then measuring the speed the boats are going they can find the distance the lost have gone and in which direction.

Hope this helped :-)

Answer 3

1. type 'triangulation' into the search window of Yahoo'

2. click on 'search' (next to the window)

3. wade through the 1.9 million plus hits until you find what you want.

Triangulation takes a bit of room to explain. And it's a lot easier with pictures.


Doug