Law of Sines Poem

Neph131

05/13/15

 

    Law of Sines Poem

To start off, you have to know the formula:

Sin A/a = Sin B/b= Sin C/c

It's quite simple, can't cause any drama.

However, calculating this may cause an error for angles close to 90 degrees.

The law of sines is one of two trig equations.

Unlike many other formulas, it causes no frustration.

The law of sines is very useful,

And for triangles, it it crucial.

It can be used for right angles,

And it saves time.

While SOH CAH TOA entangles,

Using law of sines is prime.

Like the slices of tomato pie,

each angle is right across from their side.

We divide side a by the sine of angle A,

We do the same for angles B and C to sides b and c, respectively.

This is about as easy as it gets.

The law of sines can be used to solve for any triangle,

You can use it to find the unknown angle.

In order to figure out what it is that divides,

You need to know that the lowercase letters represent the sides.

The law of sines is mainly used to find lengths,

Now you see its main strengths.

To find an opposite angle, you need two sides,

And that's when you set the law of cosines aside.

The law of sines isn't practically exciting, however, it's one part of geometry that you would rather be doing.

Miss Hoffman keeps it simple and uses b/sinb= c/sinc rather than using sinb= h/b.

Like what in the malfunction is this?

To say the least, that's the reaction that came out of me.

Well, this is where it ends.

With simple law of sine and no tangents, and simple law of cosine and no secants.