
Trigonometry
Angles
- Right angle is
- Complementary angles are two positive angles that add up to
- Supplementary angles are two positive angles that add up to
Arc
- 1 degree = 60 minutes of arc : 1 = 60'
- 1 minute = 60 seconds of arc : 1’ = 60''
Radian
- Radian (): central angle that subtends (limits by both sides) an arc length (curved length) of one radius
- one ‘radius’ worth of angle
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- conversion implies:
- Recall: a circle’s circumference is or
Triangles
- Obtuse: Largest angle is >90
- Acute: Largest angles are acute
- Congruent: Corresponding parts are congruent (CPCTC)
- implies 3 angles and 3 sides are congruent
- Similar: Corresponding angles are congruent, and sides are proportional
- implies 3 angles are congruent, but sides are not
Thales’ Theorem
- If points and are points on the diameter ofa circle, then point on any other point of the circle will form a right triangle between ,, and s.t. they form a triangle .
: Construct an arbitrary circle such that there are two points and on the diameter with radius . Add an arbitrary point to any other point of the diameter on the circle. Construct a triangle with angles at each point with A, B, and C. Draw a line within this arbitrary triangle such that the line connects the center, to , and subdivides the arbitrary triangle. The two resulting triangles will be one equilateral triangle with length of radius , and an obtuse triangle also with radial sides and a length from . label the angles in the equilateral triangle . Label the obtuse triangle such that the smaller angles are . We can infer that the remaining angle is . Since the sum of the internal angles of every triangle is 180, recall our arbitrary triangle will have internal measurements:
By equivalence, we can substitute the angles with the measurements of the smaller triangles within, such that:
Recall that angle is the same as , making the arbitrary triangle a right triangle.
Pythagorean Theorem
- For any right triangle with sides , , and hypotenuse :
: c, the hypotenuse, is given if we know the area of the bigger square, or:
The area of the triangles are formed by finding the area of 4 of our original triangle, or:
What about that inner square? Well let’s consider what relations we can deduce, then we would be able to equate the area of a c² square with the parts that make it up. Well we know it’s just a square of (a - b) edge lengths, by looking at where the triangles touch each other, so it would have an area of:
The area of the entire square of c² is given by the area of the triangles and inner square, or:
Application: Distance Between Two Points
For the distance between two points in 2 and 3-dimensional space:
- 2D:
- 3D:
Trigonometric Ratios
- Sine (), Cosine (), Tangent ()
- S O/H - C A/H - T O/A
- Cosecant (), Secant (), Cotangent (), are almost an anagram (reciprocals, or ):
- A/O T () - H/A C () - H/O S ()
Trigonometric ‘Functions’
- On a unit circle, the hypotenuse, or radius, is of 1 unit. This means for SOHCAHTOA:
Identities:
- Apply the pythagorean theorem to a triangle in the unit circle. Notice that when we square non-hypotenuse sides, it equals to or .
Values
- To obtain values of trig functions along the unit circle (or any circle) along the well known thirds, sixths, halves, and quarters of , utilize the Large (), Medium (), and Small () pneumonic.
Period
- Length of a functions cycle, typically peak to peak.
Length
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Identities
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Proof: