Re: Garden planning problem

2014-01-02 Thread Roger Bailey
Hello Marcelo, Many on this list empathize with your problem. We know what we want to do but the math is unfamiliar. In reality the trigonometry here is very simple, as you have laid out the problem. The ratio of the height of the shadow caster, G to the shadow length, L is the Tangent of the

Garden planning problem

2014-01-02 Thread Marcelo
Hello fellow dialists, how are you? I'm with a problem here which doesn't concern exactly to sundials, but since it deals with sun's position and his shadows, I couldn't think of anyone better than you to help me. I have a little garden here at home, a walled area where I grow some plants in pots.