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#1 2014-07-25 22:55:50

headhurts
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Registered: 2014-05-04
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Leaning tower of what?

Question: Confirm whether the leaning tower of pisa is leaning, and if the lean is changing (between any two random days). Only tools given: Ability to measure vertical angles and fixed length rod (say 2m). Supposed to use basic geometry and trig. Made my head hurt for real trying to figure that out.

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#2 2014-07-29 00:45:00

Bob
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Re: Leaning tower of what?

hi headhurts,

headhurts wrote:

Ability to measure vertical angles

Do you mean with something like this:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Using-a … re-height/

Bob


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