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- Review of Trig Identities.
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- │ Basic Identities │
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- sin (-x) = - sin x
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- cos (-x) = cos x
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- 2 2
- sin x + cos x = 1
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- sin (x + y) = sin x cos y + cos x sin y
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- cos (x + y) = cos x cos y - sin x sin y
- 2 2
- sin 2x = 2 sin x cos x cos 2x = cos x - sin x
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- There are many other useful identities which you must know about, for example
- the following occur frequently in calculus problems :
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- 2 2 2 2
- tan x + 1 = sec x 1 + cot x = csc x
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- sin (x - y) = sin x cos y - cos x sin y
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- cos (x - y) = cos x cos y + sin x sin y
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- 2
- sin (x/2) = (1 - cos x)/2
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- 2
- cos (x/2) = (1 + cos x)/2
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- tan x + tan y
- tan (x + y) = ───────────────
- 1 - tan x tan y
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- Instructors aren't too happy with students who can't produce these with ease.
- However, all of these can be obtained from the previous group very easily.
- As an exercise you should make sure you can obtain all of them that way.
- In general it is wise to remember a few formulae correctly and be able to
- derive the rest from them. RAM is very cheap, but until you can install it
- in your brain, you are stuck with what you have. Moreover, there is reason
- to believe that it deteriorates with age!
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- │ Common Mistakes │
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- WRONG sin (2x) = 2 sin(x) RIGHT sin (2x) = 2 sin(x)cos(x)
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- with similar errors for cos(2x), tan(2x), etc., for example
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- WRONG 3 tan(x/3) = tan(x)
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- WRONG sin(x + h) = sin x + sin h
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- RIGHT sin(x + h) = sin x cos h + cos x sin h
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- with similar errors for cos(x + h), tan(x + h), etc.
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- 2 ___
- WRONG sin (\▌x ) = sin (x) The left-hand side cannot be simplified.
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