Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Check out Make: Trigonometry”.
What is trigonometry anyway as ancient roots and surveying and navigation? We’Ll start by laying you walk in some of those footsteps with simple tools, but in our latest book make trigonometry. We show you how to take it to the next level with maker tools like a 3D printer. All of our 3D printable models are open source and you can share them freely from our Repository they’re written in a code-based CAD program called openscad, so you can change them and learn some coding too. Along the way, we start off with trig using a single triangle and move on to show you how to go from there to a sine wave and even how to 3D print models of waves in a plane. We also wanted this book to be a bridge from our make Geometry book to our make calculus book to do that.
The last part of the book covers some analytic geometry topics with a focus on conic sections. We see how to think about and derive equations for ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas, but not until we’ve built and played with models to enhance our intuition. Finally, we tie up the book with some topics that show applications of trigonometry like tiling and making robots move hi. I’M Joan Horvath and I’m a rocket scientist and I’m rich Cameron, a hardware hacker and 3D printer engineer.
This is our 10th book together and we hope you’re as excited about it, as we are order, yours soon and start learning with us. .