Formula with sine and degrees

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pitive35 Posted messages 81 Status Membre -  
 jcm -
Bonjour, je dois faire une formule sur Excel avec des sinus, cosinus et des degrés, mais je n'y arrive pas,
Voici ma formule mathématique :
sin(HS)=sin(ϕ)×sin(δ)+cos(ϕ)×cos(δ)× cos(α)
ϕ : Latitude en degrés, dans mon tableau cellule EF2, par exemple 46°12'
δ : Déclinaison terrestre en degrés, cellule B6, par exemple -20.7°
α : angle solaire en degrés cellule D5, par exemple -120°

Dans mon exemple le résultat doit être -35°
Merci de votre aide.

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via55 Posted messages 14730 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2 755
 
Good evening

The Sin and Cos functions in Excel use radians as the unit of calculation

So, you need to convert the data to degrees using the RADIANS function

For example

SIN(RADIANS(50)) to get the sine of an angle of 50°

Best regards
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pitive35 Posted messages 81 Status Membre 1
 
Hello,
Thank you, I have tried, but with my example it doesn't work.
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jcm
 
Thank you, it works....... perfect
very good advice
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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58546 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   17 474
 
Congratulations, pitive35!

You have broken all records: the same character ""?"" means both
Latitude, Terrestrial Declination, Solar Angle
and we have to deal with it!

... just like we have to guess the difference between sin?(HS) and sin?(?) ...

Retirement is great! Especially in the Caribbean ... :-)
☻ Raymond ♂
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pitive35 Posted messages 81 Status Membre 1
 
Hello,

I'm sorry my symbols didn't integrate, here is my formula:
sin(HS) = sin(phi) x sin(theta) + cos(phi) x cos(theta) x cos(omega)
phi: Latitude
theta: declination
omega: solar angle

Thank you for letting me know, I hadn't noticed about my symbols.
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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58546 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   17 474
 
Hello pitive35.

Indeed, it's not quite the same ...
First, you need to write the angles in degrees with decimals, without any symbols; so
46°12' should be written as 46.2 ......... in D2, and RAD(D2) = 0.8063421 in E2
-20°7' should be written as -20.1167 ... in D3, and RAD(D3) = -0.351108 in E3
-120° remains written as -120 ............. in D4, and RAD(D4) = -2.094395 in E4

Your formula will simply be written in E5:
=SIN(E2)*SIN(E3)+COS(E2)*COS(E3)*COS(E4)
which equals -0.57319953, and the angle whose sine has this value is
=ASIN(E5) which gives -0.6104052 rad in E6
or =DEGREES(E6) which displays -34.9736416 degrees in E7.

File in xlsx: https://www.cjoint.com/c/CDig342d8ZD
File in xls: https://www.cjoint.com/?CDig5encENf

Best regards.
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Retirement is great! Especially in the Caribbean ... :-)
☻ Raymond ♂
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pitive35 Posted messages 81 Status Membre 1
 
Hello Raymond,
Thank you very much, it's exactly the desired results.
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