STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text PROGRAMME F8 TRIGONOMETRY
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles Trigonometric identities Trigonometric formulas NB: I have slightly edited the book’s slides
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles Rotation Radians Triangles Trigonometric ratios Reciprocal ratios Pythagoras’ theorem Special triangles
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles Rotation When a straight line is rotated about a point it sweeps out an angle that can be measured in degrees or radians A straight line rotating through a full angle and returning to its starting point is said to have rotated through 360 degrees (360 o ) One degree = 60 minutes (60'), and one minute = 60 seconds (60'')
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles: Radians When a straight line of length r is rotated about one end so that the other end describes an arc of length r the line is said to have rotated through 1 radian – 1 rad Since circumference has total length 2 π r, there are 2π radians in a full circle. So 1 radian is 360/ 2π degrees, i.e. about 57 degrees.
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Useful Numbers of Radians and Degrees 2 π radians = 360 degrees π radians = 180 degrees π/2 radians = 90 degrees π/3 radians = 60 degrees π/4 radians = 45 degrees π/6 radians = 30 degrees
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text All at Sea (added by John Barnden) The circumference of the Earth is about 24,900 miles. That corresponds to 360 x 60 minutes of arc, = 21,600' So 1' takes you about 24,900/21,600 miles = about 1.15 miles. A nautical mile was originally defined as being the distance that one minute of arc takes you on any meridian (= line of longitude). This distance varies a bit as you go along the meridian, because of the irregular shape of the Earth. A nautical mile is now defined as 1852 metres, which is about 1.15 miles. A knot is one nautical mile per hour. NB: 60 knots is nearly 70 miles/hour. Look up nautical miles and knots on the web – it’s interesting.
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles Triangles All triangles possess shape and size. The shape of a triangle is governed by the three angles and the size by the lengths of the three sides
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles Trigonometric ratios
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Trigonometric ratios: in a right-angled triangle AB = the “hypotenuse” ERROR in tangent formula: should be AC/BC !!!!
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Reciprocal ratios
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Pythagoras’ s Theorem The square on the hypotenuse of a right- angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Special triangles Right-angled isosceles
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Special triangles, contd Half equilateral
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles Special triangles Half equilateral
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Angles Trigonometric identities Trigonometric formulas
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Trigonometric identities The fundamental identity Two more identities Identities for compound angles
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry The fundamental identity The fundamental trigonometric identity is derived from Pythagoras’ theorem
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Two more identities Dividing the fundamental identity by cos 2
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Programme F8: Trigonometry Last one: Dividing the fundamental identity by sin 2
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Beyond Pythagoras (added by John Barnden) Cosine Rule Ignore the outer triangle. Let the sides of the inner triangle ABC have lengths a, b, c (opposite the angles A, B, C, respectively). Then: c 2 = a 2 + b 2 – 2ab.cos C This works for any shape of triangle. When C = 90 degrees, we just get Pythagoras, as cos 90 o = 0. EX: What happens when C is zero?
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Beyond Pythagoras, contd The result on the previous slide can easily be shown be dropping a perpendicular from vertex A to line BC. Try it as an EXERCISE. Use Pythagoras on each of the resulting right-angle triangles. You’ll also need to use the Fundamental Identity.
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Another Interesting Fact (added by John Barnden) Sine Rule a/sin A = b/sin B = c/sin C This again can easily be seen by dropping a perpendicular from any vertex to the opposite side. Try it as an EXERCISE. Just use the definition of sine twice to get two different expressions for the length of the perpendicular.
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Switching to Programme F10 briefly Programme F10: Functions
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Trigonometric functions Rotation Programme F10: Functions For angles greater than zero and less than /2 radians the trigonometric ratios are well defined and can be related to the rotation of the radius of a unit circle:
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Trigonometric functions: Rotation beyond 90 degrees Programme F10: Functions By continuing to rotate the radius of a unit circle the trigonometric ratios can extended into the trigonometric functions, valid for any angle. Take AB positive if above the line, negative if below. Take OB positive if to the right, negative to the left. So AB positive, OB negative in case shown below. Hypotenuse (the radius) always has positive length.
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Trigonometric functions Rotation Programme F10: Functions The sine function:
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Trigonometric functions Rotation Programme F10: Functions The cosine function:
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Trigonometric functions The tangent Programme F10: Functions The tangent is the ratio of the sine to the cosine:
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Switching back to Programme F8 Programme F8: Trigonometry
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Angles Trigonometric identities Trigonometric formulas Programme F8: Trigonometry
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Trigonometric formulas Sums and differences of angles Double angles Sums and differences of ratios Products of ratios Programme F8: Trigonometry
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Trigonometric formulas Sums and differences of angles (NB: there’s a typo on LHS of 2 nd sine formula – should have a minus sign instead of a plus sign – John B.) Programme F8: Trigonometry
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Double angles Programme F8: Trigonometry
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Sums and differences of trig functions Programme F8: Trigonometry
STROUD Worked examples and exercises are in the text Products of trig functions Programme F8: Trigonometry