From b2f257c88cbedae65b5ea8295af6ae92e0799a7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hal Simpson <hasimpson@usgs.gov> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 09:02:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] changed comments --- geomagio/ChannelConverterTest.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/geomagio/ChannelConverterTest.py b/geomagio/ChannelConverterTest.py index c52e3939..5c653142 100644 --- a/geomagio/ChannelConverterTest.py +++ b/geomagio/ChannelConverterTest.py @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ class ChannelConverterTest: geographic north. Y: the component corresponding to the field strength along geographic east. + + We are using triangle identities for variables to test with. Specifically + the hypotenuse is normally equal to 1, causing the adjacent angle + length to be cos(angle) and the opposite length to be sin(angle) """ def test_get_geo_from_obs(self): -- GitLab