I really hope this isn't homework. I made an inner class myPoint to demonstrate, i assume you already have a point class in place that you could use/extend:
Code:
public class testtrig {
public static void main(java.lang.String args[]) {
testtrig x = new testtrig();
myPoint p1 = x.new myPoint(1000.,1.);
myPoint p2 = x.new myPoint(0.,0.5);
System.out.println("The result for p1 and p2 is: " + p1.getAngleInDegreesWith(p2));
System.out.println("The result from origin of p1: " + p1.getAngleInDegreesWithOrigin());
}
public class myPoint {
double xCoor; //We'll let them default to protected, so we can act on other myPoints in methods
double yCoor;
myPoint(double x,double y) {
this.xCoor = x;
this.yCoor = y;
}
public double getX() { return xCoor;}
public double getY() { return yCoor;}
public double getSlopeWith(myPoint p) {
return (java.lang.Math.abs(p.xCoor - xCoor) / java.lang.Math.abs(p.yCoor - yCoor));
}
public double getAngleInDegreesWith(myPoint p) {
return java.lang.Math.toDegrees(java.lang.Math.atan(this.getSlopeWith(p)));
}
public double getSlopeWithOrigin() {
return xCoor/yCoor;
}
public double getAngleInDegreesWithOrigin() {
return java.lang.Math.toDegrees(java.lang.Math.atan(this.getSlopeWithOrigin()));
}
}
}
It isn't the most beautiful or best documented, but it should get you the angle in degrees. I didn't do any I/O, the main class is just to demonstrate the use of some of the functions. You would want to add error checking that the slope wasn't infinity/undefined, etc.
-Lee
Edit: I was guessing at which angle you wanted, exactly... i figured that if you were working with the origin and some point with positive x and y value the angle you'd want would be the one between the x-axis and the line segment between the two points. If that isn't what you want, it should be easy to adjust... it's all a little trig. I didn't want to calculate the line segment length for use, that's why i went with tangent. Someone might need to check my logic for negative x and y values. It's saturday.
