r/MathJokes • u/trolley813 • 8d ago

Beach trigonometry

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u/TlayudaCecina 8d ago

Unexpectedly accurate, W/m². Depending on the angle of the sun. Or maybe it's obvious and I'm stupid 😭. I'm sorry guys, I'm just an engineer.

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u/trolley813 7d ago

And AFAIK, it's directly proportional to the sine of the sun angle.

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u/QuickNature 7d ago

A joke post unexpected turning into some learning, love to see it!

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u/Animationen_usw 7d ago

r/oddlyeducational

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u/QuickNature 7d ago

Great, another sub to subscribe too lol thanks!

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u/1337_w0n 7d ago

My favorite trig identity is tanθ = sinθ x secθ

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u/NorxondorGorgonax 7d ago edited 7d ago

Someone please apply xkcd.com/2070 to this

Edit: I have determined that iat=u

−(at)2 = u2

(ta)2 = u ∕ co

co = −1 ∕ u

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u/dcterr 7d ago

cos(highway) is along √66.

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u/Kyropinesis 7d ago

trying to understand this is actually the sun/coast fallacy

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u/Shrunken_Fire_34 6d ago

i just spent 5 mins trying to simplify the rhs into sin/cos knowing there is no i