Wednesday 3 March 2010

What is Agriculture ??

The Agriculture is using farming to produce food.
it is used since many years ago, but things has changed since that, now fields are larger and some products are used to increase the growing of the plants..

Trigonometry is used in Agriculture !

The trigonometry is used in agriculture, mostly to measure areas, fields, etc...

Examples !!!!

An agronomist needs to plants a field of corn with certain measures. The field he is going to plant needs to look like this:




The field is not regular and the agronomist needs to know how much rope he needs to buy. He divides the field into geometric figures and then add some mesures :



How to solve the problem !!!

You have to separate the 4 triangles and then :
1. Find out the angle
2. With the angle find the missing value

A.


Now that you now how , do the same with the other 3 :


B.



C.


D.



And now after you finish the only thing you have to do is to add all the sides of field , that will give you the amount of rope he needs to buy .

Tuesday 2 March 2010