I seriously have trouble understanding the use of tangent, sine , and cosine when dealing with vectors, could someone give me the essential information regarding this topic?
Thanks SO MUCH in advance :)

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I seriously have trouble understanding the use of tangent, sine , and cosine when dealing with vectors, could someone give me the essential information regarding this topic?
Thanks SO MUCH in advance :)

aaronq · Answer

Do you know general trigonometry?

monsterisenergy · Answer

Yes I do, I know how to calculate those, opposite, adjacent and hypotenuse. I am just confused on when to use the appropriate method and stuff

aaronq · Answer

Okay. Do you wanna try an example? It might be that you're just not identifying the sides correctly.

monsterisenergy · Answer

Yes definitely I would totally appreciate that :)

aaronq · Answer

Okay, decompose this vector |dw:1408479938313:dw|

monsterisenergy · Answer

|dw:1408480023105:dw| I resolved it into horizontal and vertical components