Degrees over distance

By ctacker (****)

Date 05-05-2015 18:45 Edited 05-05-2015 21:46

The easiest way to explain, would be to take the radius (20"), multiply by two, to get your diameter. Multiply that by pi, divide by 360, and multiply that by your (2) degree tolerance.

edit: I still stand by my answer if your on a shop floor and don't have a scientific calculator, and when you need an answer quick.
you will be rounding a couple thousandths anyway.

By yojimbo (***)

Date 05-05-2015 19:43 Edited 05-05-2015 19:46

Drew,

If I understand your question you are trying to determine how far "out of plumb" or out of perpendicular a line would be if it was 2 degrees over 20" and/or 4 degrees over 20". If this is the solution you are looking for it would be solved with right triangle trigonometry. You need to know either 2 legs of a right triangle or 1 leg and one angle [excluding the 90 degree angle] of the right triangle to determine the other angles and leg lengths. While a fairly easy solution to work through it is beyond an easy explanation here and I don't think you would be best served for someone to just give you the answer. The question you ask [if I am understanding it correctly] is a calculation you will need to be able to solve for 10,000 times in the course of your trade work so it behooves you to understand how to do that. There are calculators online that will just give you the answer but again the answer is not what you need it is the method to find the answer. It's called Right Angle Trigonometry.

The very best text book I have found to explain how this is done is Johnny E. Hamilton's: Pipe Fitters Math Guide. This book starts you at the very beginning steps of the necessary arithmetic reviews and examples in short clearly explained chapters each with its own quiz and the answers for review in the back so you can test yourself as you learn. It progresses step by step to build on the foundation to teach you how to use right angle trigonometry to solve the problem you've posed. I have recommend this book to many men I've worked with over the years as an absolute fundamental and necessary bank of knowledge they need to have in their understanding. Those who ignored that recommendation never really got very good at building things. Those who did had doors of understanding opened for them that helped to build their lives for the better. Knowledge is Power. You need the knowledge that is in this book. The book only costs 25 dollars. The knowledge you'll gain will be impossible to put a price on. The effort to acquire that knowledge will be an investment in yourself that will accrue interest for the rest of your life.

Best of luck.

By aevald

Date 05-06-2015 02:59

Hello Drew, I might as well throw something in here to "confuse" you further, no, just kidding. I'll see about attaching a simplified trig. chart that I use in a fabrication class that I teach.

"Simplified" when the hypotenuse is known and one angle of the right triangle besides the 90 degree corner is also known. Then you can use that information to figure out the lengths of the other unknown sides with the use of pythagorean theorem.

The same can be said when you know one of the other sides(side adjacent, side opposite) of the right triangle and one angle, then you can use tangent and pythagorean theorem once again to figure out the lengths of the unknown sides of a right triangle.

One other handy rule to keep in mind is that any triangle contains 180 degrees and a right triangle always contains one 90 degree corner and if you know the angle of one of the other "corners" then you can easily solve for the unknown one.

Attachment: Trigtangentandsinefunctions.docx (36k)

By dick

Date 05-08-2015 03:32

miracle point (angle-pitch) 2 degrees =.035 per inch .035x20= .7inch, 4 degrees =.07 per inch .07x20=1.4 inch
1 degree angle = .0175 pitch per inch or .210 inch per foot

By welderbrent (*****)

Date 05-08-2015 03:39

Dick,

WELCOME TO THE AWS WELDING FORUM!!

Now that's something I can work with, keep it simple. Nice first post.

He Is In Control, Have a Great Day, Brent

By dick

Date 05-08-2015 20:42

Thanks Brent, this was in responce to Drew's post. My post didn't go where I intended.

Dick

By welderbrent (*****)

Date 05-08-2015 22:37

I knew that and that is what I was referring to, simple methods of finding how far off of plumb. Like using 3/4/5 instead of square roots and all the rest of it for finding if an object is square.

Brent

By 803056

Date 05-07-2015 22:31

You are right Floyd, the 25 inches was used as an example. I used 45 degrees because one can see the relationship between the 25 inch radius and the 17+ dimension.

Then I used the same equations to solve for 20 inches. The radius of the circle is always the known value in my examples. The tolerance is the vertical dimension. In this case it is about 11/16 inch.

The relationship is called the Sin Law or Law of the Sins. It is pretty easy to remember. But most of us need a calculator to do the calculations.

I tried to use Excel, but that only produces answers in terms of radians.

Al

By ssbn727 (*****)

Date 05-08-2015 03:58 Edited 05-08-2015 04:02

SOH - CAH - TOA anyone?

It's short for: "Some Old Hippy Caught Another Hippy Trippin' On Acid" :eek:

Some more: Sailors Often Have Curly Auburn Hair Till Old Age. :roll:

And: Some Old Horses Can Always Hear Their Owners Approach. :roll:

There are probably more representations but, I'm going to stop here... :eek:

No seriously folks, this acronym stands for: Sine = Opposite ÷ Hypotenuse Cosine = Adjacent ÷ Hypotenuse
Tangent = Opposite ÷ Adjacent.

I'm not going to explain anymore than what has already been shown to you and there's no need to be redundant here... The only advice I have to give is if you're still not confident enough to use what has been described to you, then here's a link which in itself is easy enough to understand that will help you understand better how to solve triangle problems. I would also second Floyd's recommendation on buying the book he endorsed because it is a well written one for a student to become more comfortable and confident in using trigonometry to find missing dimensions whether they be linear or angular...

I would also recommend this link to use for learning how to become more familiar with Trigonometry and for practice solving triangles as well as learn more about the 3 main functions and the secondary functions even if they're not used as often...
This link offers tips for example on how to "Solve" triangles... "Solving" means finding missing sides and angles... When we know any 3 of the sides or angles... We can find the other 3*... *( Except for 3 angles, because we need at least one side to find how big the triangle is.) As well as other tips to help you become more comfortable with Trigonometry:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/trig-solving-triangles.html

This link will also offer Triangle Solving Practice in another link which can be found in the link I just posted... The bottom line is this, it's one thing to solve the problems by pushing buttons on a calculator and another to understand what, why and how to solve problems where trigonometry is concerned like Floyd also mentioned... Finally, Al's post is very descriptive and very useful for you also to familiarize yourself further with the methods used to solve a variety of triangular problems... Once you get used to using the various functions and applying the tips given, you should not have any problems finding missing angles and sides. Enjoy! :grin:

Respectfully,
Henry

By SCOTTN

Date 05-08-2015 12:19

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