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Coursework Notes - Shape & Space

 

Bearings

 

Bearings are a way of describing the position of places/objects by using clockwise angles relative to North.

 

e.g. (note a bearing has 3 digits)

 

    1. east is a bearing of 090 deg.

      2.  

    2. south is a bearing of 180 deg.

      3.  

    3. west is a bearing of 270 deg.

      4.  

    4. north is a bearing of 000 deg.

      5.  

    5. south west is a bearing of 225 deg.

 

 

bearings #1

To find the bearing of a point Y from a point X:

    1. draw a line up the page from X to represent North

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    2. draw a line between point X and point Y

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    3. with your protractor on the North line(XN), measure angle NXY

 

 

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