Zero gyro shooting

[Dignan]

Originally Posted by Dorjun Driver

What Pisces said. It appears your calculator wants radians as input. Sooo:

asin (V sin RADIANS(A) / (V ^ 2 + T ^ 2 - 2VT cos RADIANS(A) ^ 1/2)

Or something to that effect. The output of asin(whatever), may be considered a scalar. But it ain't.

Your inputs from above should spit out 17.4 and 9.9 respectively.

Now. Who's working on the Q and D spread calculator?

Ok, I think I'm close to cracking this. I figured out the radian functions on my calculator are a different set of buttons with the "degree symbol" after it, ironically (see below)

La = asin˚ (V sin˚ A / (V ^ 2 + T ^ 2 - 2VT cos˚ A) ^ 1/2)

V=target speed
T=Torp speed
A=track angle

When I input the following like before
V=9
T=30
A=75
...I get 15.5 for a lead angle. Not the 17.4 Dorjun said I should get but closer. Anyone see any flaws with this formula now that the trig functions are set to radians?