A REVIEW ON BASIC

GEOMETRY
FRM 58 – FOREST STATISTICS &
MEASUREMENTS
COMMONLY USED
BIOMETRY UNITS AND
ITS CONVERSION
Units of distance/length
1 centimeter = 10 mm = 0.01 m
1 dm = 10 cm = 3.9370 in
1 inch = 2.54 cm = 0.025 m
1 meter = 100 cm = 3.28 ft = 39.37 in
1 foot = 12 inches = 0.3048 m
1 km = 1,000m
Area
1 square meter (m2) = 0.0001 ha = 10.76 ft2
1 square foot (ft2) = 0.0929 m2 = 0.0000229 acre
1 hectare = 10,000 m2 = 107,600 ft2
= 2.47 acre
1 acre = 43,560 ft2 = 4,048.33 m2
= 0.405 ha
Volume
1 cubic meter (m3) = 35.29 ft3 = 424 bd.ft.
1 cubic foot (ft3) = 0.028 m3
1 board foot (bd.ft.) = 1in x 1in x 1ft = 0.002358 m3 = 144 cu in
1 standard cord = 128 ft3 = 5 pens
1 pen = pile of wood 6 ft high composed of sticks between layer
1 Talaksan = 1m x 1m x 2m = 2m3
The unit circle – radians & degrees
The unit circle – sin, cos, tan
Sin = y

cos = x

tan = y/x
Basic properties of a circle
Why pi = 3.14159……
 How is the area of the circle
computed? πr2 ????
b
h

A s = S2
Ar = b x h

At = b x h Where:
h=r
2 b=½C
Ar = ½ (2πr) x r
Ar = πr2
 Where does 0.7854 come from?

A s = S2
Ar = b x h
Ac = 0.7854 d2
At = b x h
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