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How you would measure the height of any object that is to tall for you to touch the top using only your body or part thereof and trigonometry?
ApollyonStan
Actually, you don't even need to know your height. All you need to do is:
1. pick any arbitrary point that is somewhat close the the object. preferably about as far away as the object is tall.
2. measure the distance between the point you picked and the base of the object.
3. use a protractor to measure the angle from the point you picked. The angle should be between the ground and the hypotenuse of your make believe triangle.
4. Then, all you have to do is the math. Knowing your height, you could measure the lengths of your shadow and the object's shadow then use proportions to solve for the height of the object:
h = your height
s = length of your shadow
H = object's height
S = object's shadow h/s = H/S
Sh/s = H
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