Experts Explain: How to measure a mountain
Experts Explain: How to measure a mountain © Provided by The Indian Express First, how is the height of any mountain measured? The basic principle that was used earlier is very simple, and uses only trigonometry which most of us are familiar with, or at least can recall. There are three sides and three angles in any triangle. If we know any three of these quantities, provided one of them is a side, all the others can be calculated. In a right-angled triangle, one of the angles is already known, so if we know any other angle and one of the sides, the others can be found out. This principle c...
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