User:VictoriaWall
Hi there,
My names Victoria Wall and I am currently a transfer student from UVIC. I have done three years of University at UVIC but decided to transfer to UBC this year to major in nutrition with a minor in human kinetics. This transfer has put me back a few years to graduate. In order to take my other courses at UBC for my degree I am required to take first year UBC sciences. At UVIC I was in the rec and health program which consisted of mostly hkin courses. I have not done math since grade 12 so I am finding it hard to jump back into it but look forward to the challenge :).
PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM
The Pythagoras theorem was invented by a man named Pythagoras. This theorem was discovered by taking a triangle and realizing that if you made a square on each side of the triangle, that the largest square had the same area as the other two sides area combined. This theorem, however, only works for right angle triangles! This theorem is used to find the third length of a right angle triangle when given the lengths of two sides of the triangle. The side opposite of the right angle of the triangle is called the hypotenuse. The side to the left of the right angle of the triangle is called the adjacent side, and the side to the right of the right angle of the triangle is called the opposite side. For example, when given the length of the adjacent side (a) and the opposite side (b) we can then find the hypotenuse side (h) by using the Pythagoras theorem. This theorem uses the equation: a ^2 + b^2 = h^2. If a=5 and b=12 to find h we would plug the numbers into the equation and find that h equals 13.