Some trigonometric issue

Hello,

I have a rectangle abcd with known width w and height h.

The rectangle is rotated according to the theta angle and becomes ab'c'd'.

I can calculate the coordinates of the rotated rectangle. However my
knowledge in trigonometry is too weak to find the position of the point p on
the y axis. This point is at the intersection of the y-axis and the line
passing through the upper side of the rectangle after rotation.

Does anyone know how to calculate this? The distance between a and b' can be
easily calculated, but from there I am not quite sure how to proceed.

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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:34:41AM +0100, nop head wrote:
> I think it is just  length(ab) /  acos(theta)

Rotate the "whole figure" back along theta, but take the Y-axis along.

So now you want to find the intersection of the rotated Y-axis
and the upper side of your rectangle.

The line is: y/x = tan (theta).
and the topside of the rectangle is y = h

So I think you get h = tan (theta) * x or x = h/tan (theta)
So x,h  is the intersection point, and now you calculate the lenght from
the origin to find the Y-coordinate requested in the original question.
yp = sqrt (h*h +  h/tan (theta)* h/tan (theta))

You could/should check that x = h/tan (theta) is less than
w. Otherwise you're intersecting with the other edge of the rectangle.
But I'm guessing you have good reasons to believe that this will never
happen.

        Roger.


> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 11:29, amundsen <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a rectangle abcd with known width w and height h.
> >
> > The rectangle is rotated according to the theta angle and becomes ab'c'd'.
> >
> > I can calculate the coordinates of the rotated rectangle. However my
> > knowledge in trigonometry is too weak to find the position of the point p
> > on
> > the y axis. This point is at the intersection of the y-axis and the line
> > passing through the upper side of the rectangle after rotation.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to calculate this? The distance between a and b' can
> > be
> > easily calculated, but from there I am not quite sure how to proceed.
> >
> > <http://forum.openscad.org/file/t2715/trigonometry_question.jpg>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:04:26PM +0100, nop head wrote:
> The triangle pab' is a right angle triangle and the angle pab' is equal to
> theta. So ab' / p = cos(theta). Hence p = ab' / cos(theta) and ab' = ab. So
> ab / cos(theta).

Although I might get a different formula... If I did things right the
result should be the same. It is possible that without pen-and-paper
I've done something wrong. And my trig is a bit rusty.

If you figure out a formula and want to double check it you can put in
the numbers that you can verify.

If my rectangle is 2 wide, 1 high and theta is 45deg. then the answer
should be sqrt (2).

if a is the width and b is the height, then ab/cos(theta) becomes 1.41
precisely the answer we expect....

But if our rectangle is 3 wide and the height and theta still 1 and 45
then the answer should still be 1.41 (sqrt(2)), but your formula gives
something else. The first example was a coincidence!

My formula however comes to yp = h * sqrt(1+1/tan(theta)^2) = sqrt(2)
for both examples. We can try a few more "known examples", but so far
my formula seems to do a bit better than yours.

        Roger.

P.S. I started out thinking that both formulas would come out to the
same number but it seems that this is not the case.


> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 11:53, Rogier Wolff <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:34:41AM +0100, nop head wrote:
> > > I think it is just  length(ab) /  acos(theta)
> >
> > Rotate the "whole figure" back along theta, but take the Y-axis along.
> >
> > So now you want to find the intersection of the rotated Y-axis
> > and the upper side of your rectangle.
> >
> > The line is: y/x = tan (theta).
> > and the topside of the rectangle is y = h
> >
> > So I think you get h = tan (theta) * x or x = h/tan (theta)
> > So x,h  is the intersection point, and now you calculate the lenght from
> > the origin to find the Y-coordinate requested in the original question.
> > yp = sqrt (h*h +  h/tan (theta)* h/tan (theta))
> >
> > You could/should check that x = h/tan (theta) is less than
> > w. Otherwise you're intersecting with the other edge of the rectangle.
> > But I'm guessing you have good reasons to believe that this will never
> > happen.
> >
> >         Roger.
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 11:29, amundsen <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have a rectangle abcd with known width w and height h.
> > > >
> > > > The rectangle is rotated according to the theta angle and becomes
> > ab'c'd'.
> > > >
> > > > I can calculate the coordinates of the rotated rectangle. However my
> > > > knowledge in trigonometry is too weak to find the position of the
> > point p
> > > > on
> > > > the y axis. This point is at the intersection of the y-axis and the
> > line
> > > > passing through the upper side of the rectangle after rotation.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know how to calculate this? The distance between a and b'
> > can
> > > > be
> > > > easily calculated, but from there I am not quite sure how to proceed.
> > > >
> > > > <http://forum.openscad.org/file/t2715/trigonometry_question.jpg>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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