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The document defines and describes rays and angles. It explains that a ray is a line extending from one point and a angle is the union of two rays that share a common endpoint. The document also discusses different systems for measuring angles, including degrees which divides a full rotation into 360 parts and radians which measures the arc length between the two sides of an angle using the radius of a circle.

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Rays Ang

The document defines and describes rays and angles. It explains that a ray is a line extending from one point and a angle is the union of two rays that share a common endpoint. The document also discusses different systems for measuring angles, including degrees which divides a full rotation into 360 parts and radians which measures the arc length between the two sides of an angle using the radius of a circle.

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Rays and Angles

Prepared by Title V Staff: Daniel Judge, Instructor Ken Saita, Program Specialist

East Los Angeles College


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Ray A line that starts at one point and extends indefinitely through another point.

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Angle The union of two rays that share a common endpoint (vertex).

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Fact: We can also think of an angle as being formed by rotating one ray away from the its initial position.
ROTATED SIDE

INITIAL POSITION

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The angle formed is indicated by a letter, often times by a Greek letter.

ROTATED SIDE

a
INITIAL POSITION

Greek letter alpha

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The initial position is formally known as the initial side.

The rotated side is formally known as the terminal side.


(SIDE WAS ROTATED)

TERMINAL SIDE

INITIAL POSITION
(FIXED SIDE)
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To indicate the measure of angle a we use the notation m(a).

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In trigonometry, we often use two systems of measurement:

1) Degree (ancient) Based on a circle 2) Radian (modern) Based on the unit circle

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Ancient mathematicians divided one complete rotation into 360 parts. Each part was called a degree.

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Modern mathematicians measure angles by placing a circle at the vertex of an angle and measuring the length of the arc between the two sides of the angle. A length equal to the radius is called a radian. Since the circumference equals 2r, there are 2 radians in a complete rotation.
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