Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (May 2009)

Plane Angles: why must the radian have a measure equal to the unity?

  • Héctor Oscar Di Rocco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7941.2009v26n1p136
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 1
pp. 136 – 144

Abstract

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In this article is discussed a subject that generates controversies in the teaching of Physics: why the radian must be the correct unit for the measurements of plane angles. The answer is, in our opinion, in the concepts of Calculus, where the analytical notions are independent of the geometrical ones.

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