[Wolves] OT: Maths problem

[Andy Wootton]

chris procter wrote:

> --- sparkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote: 
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>>Andy Wootton wrote:
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>>> <>...I'm worried that I don't even understand what the diagram
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>>>represents. What are the axes of the grid?
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>Think of the y axis as north/south and the x axis as
>east/west you are facing north and move off at V
>metres per second at an angle of A.
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>In 1 second you have moved V metres. How many metres
>north of your starting point and how many metres east?
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Thanks. The bit that worried me was the fact that the vector represented 
velocity and a distance appeared to be required, without any period of 
time being specified. I guess the assumption in the question was 1 unit 
of time. I finished my mathmatical education in a physics department, 
where the units are more important than the numbers. Noone expects 
better than an order of magnitude accuracy but it is important  to know 
what unit you are being innacurate in.

>I'm concerned about how much maths I remember since
>leaving uni in 96
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>chris 
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Too much or too little?

My first job was in a college of higher education. One of the computer 
science lecturers was a chemistry graduate who had gone straight into 
computing. 20 years after graduating the college were considering 
closing down the computing courses and asking him to teach chemistry. It 
took me a few years to understand the panic I saw in his eyes that day.

Woo