To analyze a truss there is often a good deal of trigonometry involved to calculate the components of forces. To make things simpler (I hope), I’ve created a simple excel spreadsheet that will allow you to calculate angles, sines, cosines, and tangents if you know the length of the legs of any triangle. This should ease the calculation burden somewhat. You might well wish to use this sheet as a starting point to make your truss calculations even readily modifiable.
Here’s the link to the spreadsheet.
Download the spreadsheet to Excel to see the diagram that explains the notation.
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