Monday, 7 September 2015

trigonometry - Finding angles of a quadrilateral



There is a quadrilateral. Length of all 4 sides are known (lets say a,b,c,d).




All 4 angles are 180, but their exact value is unknown.
lets say the four angle names are α,β,γ,ω (in this order)



refer this fig: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ejefG.jpg (img courtesy: @sinbadh)



α and β has following relation (1st):



α=β/2+90



Is this info enough to find a unique solution for α,β,γ,ω




If yes, could you help provide their solution.



If no, lets make a relation (2nd) between α and γ:



γ=180α



Now is it possible to find a unique solution for α,β,γ,ω



In short i need α=f(a,b,c,d)




----- UPDATE -----



With the help of @sinbadh's answer posted below, on using law of cosine I was able to find α and γ as f(a,b,c,d) only if the second relation (γ=180α) is true.



However, it would help me more if I can find the angles with only 1st relation (not 2nd relation)


Answer



In figure, by Cosine's Law we know AB. Then, by the same law, we know ADB.Finally, as it is a convex quadrilateral (cuase all angles are not mayor than 180), sum of all angles are 360. Those, we get DBC



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If quadrilateral isn't convex, only can happen two situations:enter image description here



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Both of them are equivalent to the first case.


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