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What is the formula for sine?
What is the formula for cosine?
What is the formula for tangent?
What is the formula for cosecant?
What is the formula for secant?
What is the formula for cotangent?
What is the conversion from polar to rectangular coordinates for x?
What is the conversion from polar to rectangular coordinates for y?
What is the Pythagorean identity?
Formula for the period of ?
How to find the amplitude and period of ?
Amplitude: |A|, Period:
How to solve for x?
Find the principal value using , then use the properties of sine to find other solutions within the desired interval.
How to convert the point (3,4) from rectangular to polar coordinates?
- Calculate r: . 2. Calculate : radians.
How to find the x-intercepts of ?
Set , solve for 2x: , then solve for x: , where n is an integer.
How do you graph a polar equation of the form ?
Create a table of values for and r, plot the points (r, ), and connect them to form the graph (usually a circle).
How to solve a trigonometric equation involving multiple angles?
Use trigonometric identities to simplify the equation, then solve for the multiple angle, and finally solve for the variable.
How to determine the vertical shift of a sinusoidal function?
Identify the midline of the function. The vertical shift is the distance between the midline and the x-axis.
How to find the period of a transformed tangent function?
For , the period is .
How to find the domain of an inverse trigonometric function?
Consider the range of the original trigonometric function. For example, the domain of is [-1, 1].
How do you convert rectangular equation to polar equation?
Replace x with and y with , then simplify the equation.
Define periodic phenomena.
Patterns that repeat over time.
What are sinusoidal functions?
Periodic functions represented by sine or cosine.
Define inverse trigonometric functions.
Functions that find angles from given sine, cosine, or tangent values.
What are polar coordinates?
Another way to express positions in a plane using distance and angle.
Define amplitude of a sinusoidal function.
The maximum displacement from the midline of the function.
What is the period of a trigonometric function?
The length of one complete cycle of the function.
Define vertical shift.
A transformation that moves the graph of a function up or down.
What is the unit circle?
A circle with radius 1 centered at the origin, used to define trigonometric functions.
Define radian.
A unit of angular measure defined as the angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc equal in length to the radius.
What is a polar function?
A function defined in polar coordinates, typically in the form r = f(θ).