GEOMETRY IN DAILY LIFE GEOMETRY

Geometry is a part of mathematics concerned with questions of size, shape, and relative position of figures and with properties of space. Geometry is one of the oldest sciences.

USES : How much concrete is needed for a footing with these dimensions?, or how much
fencing is needed to enclose the region in this sketch. Carpentry generally does not require much formal education, but some of their applicants thought all they had to do was show up. Geometry being used in : (a) Computer graphics is based on geometry - how images are transformed when viewed in various ways. (b) Computer-aided design, computer-aided geometric design. Representing shapes in computers, and using these descriptions to create images, to instruct people or machines to build the shapes, etc. (e.g. the hood of a car, the overlay of parts in a building construction, even parts of computer animation). (c) Robotics. Robotic vision, planning how to grasp a shape with a robot arm, or how to move a large shape without collission. (d) Medical imaging - how to reconstruct the shape of a tumor from CAT scans, and other medical measurements. Lots of new geometry and other math was (and still is being) developed for this. (e) Structural engineering. What shapes are rigid or flexible, how they respond to forces and stresses. Statics (resolution of forces) is essentially geometry. This goes over into all levels of design, form, and function of many things. I have attended some interesting architecture and design conferences where all of this flows together sometimes (in North American culture) with people knowing too little geometry to do some of the things well. (f) Protein modeling. Much of the function of a protein is determined by its shape and how the pieces move. Mad Cow Disease is caused by the introduction of a 'shape' into the brain (a shape carried by a protein). Many drugs are designed to change the shape or motions of a protein - something that we are just now working to model, even approximately, in computers, using geometry and related areas (combinatorics, topology). (g) Physics, chemistry, biology, .... . Symmetry is a central concept of many studies in science - and also the central concept of modern studies of geometry. Students struggle in university science if they are not able to detect symmetries of an object (molecule in stereo chemistry, systems of laws in physics, ... ). the study of transfromations and related symmetries has been, since 1870s the defining characteristic of geometric studies.

Pictures of Geometry used in the real world

Geometry is used everywhere. Everywhere in the world there is geometry, mostly made by man. Most man made structures today are in a form of Geometric. How, you ask? Well some examples would the a CD, that is a 3-D circle and the case would be a rectangular prism. Buildings, cars, rockets, planes, maps are all great examples. Here's an example on how the world uses Geometry in buildings and structure :-

1. This a pictures with some basic geometric

structures. This is a modern reconstruction of the English Wigwam. As you can there the door way is a rectangle, and the wooden panels on the side of the house are made up of planes and lines. Except for really planes can go on forever. The panels are also shaped in the shape of squares. The house itself is half a cylinder.

2. Here is another modern reconstruction if of a

English Wigwam. This house is much similar to the one before. It used a rectangle as a doorway, which is marked with the right angles. The house was made with sticks which was straight lines at one point. With the sticks in place they form squares when they intercepts. This English Wigwam is also half a cylinder.

MIT. The openings and windows are all made up of parallelograms. Much of them are rectangles and squares. This is a parallelogram kind of building.

3. This is a modern day skyscraper at

4. This is the Hancock Tower, in Chicago. With this image, we can show you more 3D shapes. As you can see the tower is formed by a large cube. The windows are parallelogram. The other structure is made up of a cone. There is a point at the top where all the sides meet, and There is a base for it also which makes it a cone.

5. This is another building at MIT. this building is made up of cubes, squares and a sphere. The cube is the main building and the squares are the windows. The doorways are rectangle, like always. On this building There is a structure on the room that is made up of a sphere.

6. This is the Pyramids, in Indianapolis. The pyramids are made up of pyramids, of course, and squares. There are also many 3D geometric shapes in these pyramids. The building itself is made up of a pyramid, the windows a made up of tinted squares, and the borders of the outside walls and windows are made up of 3D geometric shapes.

7. This is a Chevrolet SSR

Roadster Pickup. This car is built with geometry. The wheels and lights are circles, the doors are rectangular prisms, the main area for a person to drive and sit in it a half a sphere with the sides chopped off which makes it 1/4 of a sphere. If a person would look very closely the person would see a lot more shapes in the car. Too many to list.

Use of Area, Perimeter and Volume Formulae in daily life: 1. Step 1 Area problems are one of the most common uses of geometry in our everyday lives. Let's say you need to install new carpet in your bedroom. How much carpet will you need to buy? Measure your room's length and width and then multiply them together to find out how many square feet of carpeting is needed. This is represented by the formula A = L x W, or area equals length times width. If, for example, your room is 12 feet by 10 feet, you will need 120 square feet of carpet. 2. Step 2 Another area problem you may encounter is determining how many cans of paint to buy to cover your walls. The label on the gallon of paint tells you it will cover 400 square feet. You measure your walls and find that the room you want to paint has walls of the following dimensions: 10 ft x 10 ft, 10 ft x 8 ft, 10 ft x 10 ft and 10 ft x 8 ft. So you need to cover the areas of 100 square feet + 80 square feet + 100 square feet + 80 square feet = 360 square feet. Your room can be single coated by one can of paint. 3. Step 3 Perhaps you are planning a garden. A bag of fertilizer says it can cover 100 square feet. You need to know how many bags you will need. Measure the area of your garden (length times width) to find your area. Let's say my garden measures 40 feet by 20 feet. That means I need to cover 800 square feet of area with fertilizer. Divide 800 by 100 and you get 8. We need 8 bags of fertilizer for my garden. 4. Step 4 Let's say you want to fence in the garden we just mentioned. Find the perimeter to answer this question. Add up all four sides to get the perimeter - 40 +20 + 40 + 20 = 120 feet. You will need 120 feet of fencing to enclose your garden. 5. Step 5 Volume involves three dimensional space. You could use volume to find out how much cement mix it will take to pour a walkway or how much sand is needed to fill a sandbox. Let's look at the sandbox example. You have built a sandbox that is 5 feet long by 5 feet wide. The sides are 6 inches tall. Volume is length times width times height or V = L x W x H. Six inches equals one half of a foot, or 0.5 feet. Our equation would be 5 x 5 x 0.5 = 12.5 cubic feet. It will take 12.5 cubic feet of sand to fill our sandbox. A fifty pound bag of sand is approximately half a cubic foot, so 25 bags would fill the sandbox completely full, or 12 and 1/2 bags would fill it half full, leaving room for sand toys and kids.

Uses of geometry in the workforce 6. Step 1 Whenever you build something, you will encounter geometry. Professions such as carpentry and engineering make regular use of geometry problems.