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Trigonometry

Trigonometry is a field of mathematics. It is the study of triangles. Trigonometry includes planar trigonometry, spherical trigonometry, finding unknown values in triangles, trigonometric functions, and trigonometric function graphs.

3,810 Questions

How do you find the size of an angle when you have only the sine of the angle?

You use the arcsine or sin-1 function. For any value of sin(X), the function will return a value for the angle in the range [-pi/2, pi/2]. There are, however, infinitely many angles which will have the same value for sine. They are

X + 2k*pi and (2k+1)*pi - X radians where k is any integer.

If you still work with degrees, the answers are

X + 360k and (2k+1)*180 - X degrees.

What is the domain of a sine function?

It is infinite, in both directions. But it can be restricted to a smaller interval.

What is the gage block height for an angle of 9 degrees on a 10 inch sine plate?

10 * sine(9) = 1.5643

A stack of this height could be made with 1.000, .350, .114 and .1003 blocks for the minumum number of blocks.

What does 10 pints equals to?

There are 2 cups in a pint. There are 2 pints in a quart. There are 4 pints in a half gallon, like if you bought a half a gallon if milk at a store. There are 8 pints in a gallon.

10 pints equals 20 cups.

10 pints equals 5 quarts

10 pints equals 2 and a half gallons.

10 pints equals 1 and a quarter gallons.

Hope I helped!

What situation would you be FORCED to use law of cosines as opposed to law of sines?

When none of the angles are known, and using Pythagoras, the triangle is known not to be right angled.

What does sin 4 theta equal?

assuming that you mean what is theta if sin 4 theta = 0 then then theta=0, 0.25pi, 0.5pi, 0.75pi...

if not then without additional information the best answer you can get is sin4theta=sin4theta

A yacht leaves a dock at a bearing of S 1.4 degrees E and a speed of 20 knots over 428 nautical-miles. a. How long will it take the yacht to make the trip b. How far east and south is it after 12hr?

1 knot = 1 nautocal mile per hour.

So 428 nm @ 20 knots per hour will take 428/20 = 21.4 hours.

After 12 hours, it is 20*12 = 240 nautical miles away.

Its distance East is 240*cos(1.4deg) = 239.9 nautical miles and

its distance South is 240*sin(1.4deg) = 5.9 nautical miles.

In a triangle ABC b equals 15 cm and c equals 25 cm and also angle B equals 32'15'Find the side a and other angles?

By the sine rule,

sin(C)/c = sin(B)/b

so sin(C) = 25/15*sin(32d15m) = 0.8894

so C = 62.8 deg or 117.2 deg.

Therefore, A = 180 - (B+C) = 85.0 deg or 30.5 deg

and then, using the sine rule again,

a/sin(A) = b/sin(B)

so a = sin(A)*b/sin(B) = 28 or a = 14.3

Why is sine 30 the same as cosine of 60?

sin(30) = sin(90 - 60) = sin(90)*cos(60) - cos(90)*sin(60)

= 1*cos(60) - 0*sin(60) = cos(60).

What is the cosine of 10 degrees?

The cosine of 10 degrees is 0.98480775301221. Hope I helped!

What is period as it pertains to the graph of sine and cosine?

Period is how long it takes for the sine and cosine functions to restart repeating themselves. Both have a period of 2pi (360 degrees).

What is the exact value of tan 105 degrees?

To find the exact value of tan 105°.

First, of all, we note that

sin 105° = cos 15°; and

cos 105° = -sin 15°.

Thus, tan 105° = -cot 15° = -1 / tan 15°.

Using the formula

tan(α - β) = (tan α - tan β) / (1 + tan α tan β);

and using, also, the familiar values

tan 45° = 1, and

tan 30° = ½ / (½√3) = 1/√3 = ⅓√3;

we have,

tan 15° = (1 - ⅓√3) / (1 + ⅓√3);

whence,

cot 15° = (1 + ⅓√3) / (1 - ⅓√3)

= (√3 + 1) / (√3 - 1) {multiplying through by √3}

= (√3 + 1)2 / (√3 + 1)(√3 - 1)

= (3 + 2√3 + 1) / (3 - 1)

= (4 + 2√3) / 2

= 2 + √3.

Therefore,

tan 105° = -cot 15° = -2 - √3,

which is the result we sought.

We are asked the exact value of tan 105°, which we gave above.

We can test the above result to 9 decimal places, say, by means of a calculator:

-2 - √3 = -3.732050808; and

tan 105° = -3.732050808;

thus indicating that we have probably got the right result.

What is the procedure for finding the angle from the value of sin theta?

If you have the sine of an angle and you need to find the angle, you have a

few choices. They're exactly the same choices that you have if you're going

the other way ... you have the angle and you need to find its sine:

-- pocket calculator, or computer . . . the way it's most often done these days

-- look it up in a table in a reference book

-- calculate it on paper from an infinite series . . . technically possible, but no reason

to subject yourself to the heartburn unless you need extreme precision, better than

what you can get with a 10-digit calculator.

What is sec theta - 1 over sec theta?

Let 'theta' = A [as 'A' is easier to type]

sec A - 1/(sec A)

= 1/(cos A) - cos A

= (1 - cos^2 A)/(cos A)

= (sin^2 A)/(cos A)

= (tan A)*(sin A)

Then you can swap back the 'A' with theta