What is a description of the angle as it relates to the situation shown?
How can you tell if it is an angle of elevation or depression?
Place your finger on the vertex of the angle. Trace along the nonhorizontal side of the angle. See if your finger is above (elevation) or below (depression) the vertex.
Use the diagram in Problem 1. What is a description of the angle as it relates to the situation shown?
Wind Farm Suppose you stand 53 ft from a wind farm turbine. Your angle of elevation to the hub of the turbine is
So
Why does your eye level matter here?
Your normal line of sight is a horizontal line. The angle of elevation starts from this eye level, not from the ground.
You sight a rock climber on a cliff at a