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pyro1245
05-31-2002, 05:12 PM
does anyone know how to find the slope of a line when given the angle, starting point, and length?
kmj
05-31-2002, 05:34 PM
well, all you need is the angle, really, since that's what slope is... or am I being stupid here?
scanez
06-01-2002, 02:47 AM
Length doesn't affect the slope of a line, all we need to know in this case is the angle. Assuming that the length is 1 (since length doesn't matter) we can use a right triangle to show that the slope is y/x = sin theta / cos theta = tan theta ;)