Ambiguous Case of Sines
(c) Mitch Albritton 1996 <lilmontag@linknet.net>


Here is a program for the ambiguous case of sines, which is a trig
program.  It's quite useful to trig students.  I wrote it on a Casio
9800, but it should be compatible with most of the others.

Program Name:  Ambiguous Case of Sines
Purpose:  To solve for the sides and angles of a triangle when an angle,
its opposite side, and another side are given.
Note: -> represents single arrow
      _ represents display sign
      sin-1 represents arc sin, which is the shift of the sin
      / represents division sign
      * represents multiplication sign
Program:

"AMBIGUOUS CASE:
 MAKE SURE
CALCULATOR IS
SET ON DEGREES

ANGLE A"?->A
"SIDE A"?->B
"SIDE B"?->C
"ANGLE B1"_
sin-1(sinA*C/B)_
"ANGLE C1"_
180-(A+(sin-1(sinA*C/B))_
"SIDE C1"_
(B*(sin(180-(A+(sin-1(sinA*C/B)))))/sinA_
"ANGLE B2"_
180-(sin-1(sinA*C/B))_
"ANGLE C2"_
180-(A+(180-(sin-1(sinA*C/B))))_
"SIDE C2"_
((B*(sin(180-(A+(180-(sin-1(sinA*C/B))))))))/sinA_
"DONE"


Hope you can find room on your page to place this program.  E-mail me
back if you can.

Thanks,
Mitch Albritton
lilmontag@linknet.net