notes/education/math/MATH1060 (trig)/Angles.md
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Definitions

Term Description
Ray Directed line segment consisting of an endpoint and a direction. Notated as \overrightarrow{EF}, where E denotes the endpoint and F denotes a point along the ray.
Angle Union of two rays with a common endpoint. Notated as \angle DEF or \angle FED, where D and F are along the points of each ray, and E is the vertex. \angle EFD is not valid notation, because the vertex must be the middle.
\theta A lowercase theta is used to represent a (non right) angle in a triangle
\phi A lowercase phi is used to represent another unknown angle in a triangle. As an example, in an algebraic equation, x might be used to represent the first unknown and y the second. In trig, \theta would