am working on a problem that asks me to find out the acceleration of an object on a ramp, and I have drawn the first image. From it we could clearly see that a = g * sin (theta). But that formula does not work for all a-> because, as shown in the second image when a is larger,  it is not a right triangle, so we cannot take a = g * sin (theta) to find a in this example, am I right?

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I am working on a problem that asks me to find out the acceleration of an object on a ramp, and I have drawn the first image. From it we could clearly see that a = g * sin (theta). But that formula does not work for all a-> because, as shown in the second image when a is larger,  it is not a right triangle, so we cannot take a = g * sin (theta) to find a in this example, am I right?

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