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Pythagoras and custom angles?

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Title is messed up, It should really be trigonometry..

For example I have a right angled triangle, no matter what.

So you would have opposite, adjacent and hypotenuse..

hypotenuse.png

Now imagine, the angle (A) is in the top right, between Hyp and Opp..

(Question 1): With only the Angle and Opposite for known's is it possible to figure out the meeting point of the Hypotenuse and Adjacent?

THEN, to make things a little trickier.. After the angle of incident you would have an angle of reflection, giving a second leg to the Hypotenuse and thus creating another right angled triangle in reflection to this one.

(Question 2): Is it then possible, to know after finding the angle of incident and how far along the Adjacent that would be. To then given off a particular "Length" of the Hypotenuse, that goes beyond the angle of incident resulting in an angle of reflection to then figure out the Adjacent and Opposite of the second triangle ( Angle of reflection )..?

Just curious as to the formulae to such an equation..

EDIT:

Answers Required;

Incident Length of Adjacent?

Opposite and Adjacent Lengths of a hypotenuse that exceeds the meeting point based on the initial angle?

Also, if anyone has a brain much larger than that, you could factor in Snell's Law to give an angle of refraction rather than reflection if you see fit ! :)
 
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Isn't this just SOHCAHTOA?

That's correct, it's trigonometry, I've already figured this out. As well as adding beam paths either side dependant on the beam divergence. I was just curious as to whether anyone else fancied trying it.
 
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