a) Consider the following triangle
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By dropping a perpendicular from the vertex with angle to the base, use trigonometry to show that:
c = a cos β + b cos α
b) It can similarly be deduced that
a = c cos β + b cos γb = c cos α + a cos γ
(no derivation is required).
Regard the above as three linear equations in unknowns cos α , cosβ
and cosγ, with a; b and c considered as known. By forming an aug-
mented matrix, solve for cosγ to show that:
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c) Consider now the diagram
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Identify IIuII, IIvII and IIu - vII with a; b; c in the first diagram, and use the fact that
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to deduce from (b) that
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