In trigonometric terms and diagrams, regular terminal angle rotation is anti-clockwise. This is to keep standards universal across all diagrams.
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a bearing is the angle from north moving clockwise 360 degrees a negative bearing is moving counterclockwise from north
When using autocad, 0 degrees was at 3 o' clock, then go anticlockwise for positive, clockwise for negative
obtuse angle * * * * * The complement of an angle greater than 90 degrees is not an obtuse angle! It would be a negative angle, whose measure would be 90 minus the angle whose complement you require. This would only make sense if the direction in which the angles were measured were fixed. For example bearings, which are always measured in the clockwise direction.
Sometimes called rotation symmetry, or symmetry of rotation. If you have an object that can be turned through a certain angle (like rotating a cube through 90o) and then it looks identical, then that object has a certain symmetry under rotation. If you can turn it through any angle, like a cylinder, then it has rotation (or rotational) symmetry.
To find the complement of a negative angle, you first need to determine its positive equivalent by adding 360 degrees to the negative angle. Once you have the positive angle, you can then find its complement by subtracting the angle from 90 degrees. This will give you the complement of the negative angle in the range of 0 to 90 degrees.