Math Photo: Shadows and Triangles

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The sun sometimes turns rectangles into triangles.  A nice Sunday morning image.

shadow triangles 


patrick honner

Math teacher in Brooklyn, New York

3 Comments

Alan · December 13, 2010 at 7:50 pm

Interesting… The two triangles and the gate can form a pyramid of some sort. I wonder how the graph of the area of the triangular pyramid as the sun moves from sunrise to sunset and back. Would there be a break in the graph?

Ahmed Gouda · December 14, 2010 at 5:04 pm

The Crack in the sidewalk and the wall can make two similar triangles, or if you imagine it to be a plane a similar Triangular pyramid. This feels like an average “rate at which the volume changes if…” question.

Milagrios Metivier · May 28, 2011 at 10:56 pm

Excelent optical view! El sol refleja la sombra en forma de triangulos formada por los hierros.
So good!! 😀
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Chemical E! STUDENT!!

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