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Old 12th Nov 2009, 13:55
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I think we have to go back to basics;

SCA works on the approximate application of SIN / COS in a right angle triangle.



In the left diagram, A - B is parallel to C - D. The triangle formed by a line crossing the two lines will be a right angle triangle.

In the right diagram, the lines are not parallel. Just like in navigation where we are diverging from the planned track.

The triangle formed will not be a right angle triangle.

Thus SCA (which is based on a right angled triangle) will never work when the lines are diverging. It is a mathematical imposibility.

So are we asking the student to (as well as everything else) decide if the error is big or small?, going to leave us with a big or small (or even bigger than we started with) error after using SCA.

That is not KISS.
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