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Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Math => Topic started by: highly_ambitious on September 18, 2009, 04:52:41 pm

Title: vectors.....HELP
Post by: highly_ambitious on September 18, 2009, 04:52:41 pm

What is the difference between "x deg. north of east" and "x deg. east of north" ?

Title: Re: vectors.....HELP
Post by: astarmathsandphysics on September 18, 2009, 07:41:53 pm

Quote from: highly_ambitious on September 18, 2009, 04:52:41 pm

What is the difference between "x deg. north of east" and "x deg. east of north" ?

x degrees north of east - x degrees above the positive x axis

x degrees east of north - x degrees right of the positve y axis.