A round balloon of radius '$a $ subtends an angle $\theta $ at the eye of the observer while angle of elevation of its centre is $\phi $.Then the height of the centre of the balloon is $a\sin \phi \ \text{cosec}\dfrac{\alpha }{2}$.

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