Brian McLogan
Learning how to sketch an angle and evaluate the six trig functions for the angle
👉 Learn how to evaluate the six trigonometric functions of a given angle. When given an angle we locate the angle on the unit circle. Then using the coordinate of the terminal side of the angle on the unit circle and the definitions of...
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Use even and odd trig properties to evaluate
👉 Learn how to evaluate trigonometric functions using trigonometric identities. Trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions. We will focus on the cofunction identities and even-odd identities. The...
Brian McLogan
Math tutorial for converting an angle from decimal form to DMS form
👉 Learn how to convert angles from decimal forms to DMS forms. DMS means Degree, Minutes, and Seconds. Minutes is represented by a single apostrophe (') while seconds is represented with double apostrophe ("). 60 seconds = 1 minute and...
Brian McLogan
How to find the missing arc length given the radius and theta
👉 Learn how to solve problems with arc lengths. You will learn how to find the arc length of a sector, the angle of a sector, or the radius of a circle. An arc of a circle is the curve between a pair of points on the circumference of the...
Brian McLogan
Graphing Sine of X with Period Shift and Reflection Over X Axis
👉 Learn how to graph a sine function. To graph a sine function, we first determine the amplitude (the maximum point on the graph), the period (the distance/time for a complete oscillation), the phase shift (the horizontal shift from the...
Brian McLogan
Evaluating for cosine using even and odd functions
👉 Learn how to evaluate trigonometric functions using trigonometric identities. Trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions. We will focus on the cofunction identities and even-odd identities. The...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate your six trigonometric values for an angle in the third quadrant
👉 Learn how to evaluate the six trigonometric functions of a given angle. When given an angle we locate the angle on the unit circle. Then using the coordinate of the terminal side of the angle on the unit circle and the definitions of...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate your six trig identities given a point on the unit circle
👉 Learn how to evaluate the six trigonometric functions of a given angle. When given an angle we locate the angle on the unit circle. Then using the coordinate of the terminal side of the angle on the unit circle and the definitions of...
Brian McLogan
Find the Period Frequency Phase Shift and Amplitude of Sine
👉 Learn how to graph a sine function. To graph a sine function, we first determine the amplitude (the maximum point on the graph), the period (the distance/time for a complete oscillation), the phase shift (the horizontal shift from the...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate for sine cosine and tangent using reference angles
👉 Learn how to evaluate trigonometric functions of a given angle. Given an angle greater than 2pi in radians, to evaluate the trigonometric functions of the given angle, we first determine the smallest positive coterminal angle of the...
Brian McLogan
Using the law of sines when there are two cases
👉 Learn how to determine if a given SSA triangle has 1, 2 or no possible triangles. Given two adjacent side lengths and an angle opposite one of them (SSA or ASS), then there are 3 possible cases: there can be 1 solution, 2 solutions,...
Brian McLogan
Solving a trigonometric equation and determining all the solutions between 0 and 2pi
👉 Learn how to solve trigonometric equations. There are various methods that can be used to evaluate trigonometric equations, they include factoring out the GCF and simplifying the factored equation. Another method is to use a...
Brian McLogan
Learn how to factor and solve a trigonometric equation
👉 Learn how to solve trigonometric equations by factoring out the GCF. When solving trigonometric equations involving the multiples of the same trigonometric function. It is very useful to collect similar trigonometric functions together...
Brian McLogan
Verifying trig identities by using subtraction
👉 Learn how to verify rational trigonometric identities involving the addition and subtraction of terms. To verify trigonometric expression means to verify that the term on the left-hand side of the equality sign is equal to the term on...
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Verifying trig identities by adding rational terms
👉 Learn how to verify rational trigonometric identities involving the addition and subtraction of terms. To verify trigonometric expression means to verify that the term on the left-hand side of the equality sign is equal to the term on...
Brian McLogan
Use even odd identities to help solve trig equation with cosine
👉 Learn how to solve trigonometric equations. There are various methods that can be used to evaluate trigonometric identities, they include by factoring out the GCF and simplifying the factored equation. Another method is to use a...
Brian McLogan
Multiplying and using reciprocal identities to verify an identity
👉 Learn how to verify trigonometric identities having rational expressions. To verify trigonometric expression means to verify that the term on the left hand side of the equality sign is equal to the term on the right hand side. To...
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How to verify an identity using the sum and difference formulas
👉 Learn how to verify the sum and difference of two angles trigonometric identities using the sum/difference formulas. To verify an identity means to ascertain that the left-hand side is equal to the right-hand side of the equality sign....
Brian McLogan
How to evaluate the half angle for the tangent function
👉 Learn how to evaluate the tangent of a half-angle. When given the value of the tangent of an angle, we can evaluate the tangent of half the angle using the tangent half-angle formula. When the value of any other trigonometric function...
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Evaluating for the Tangent of a Double Angle Using the Formula
👉 Learn how to evaluate the double angle of sine. The value of the sine of double a given angle can be obtained given the value of the sine of the angle. The value of the sine of double a given angle is obtained using the formula sin(2u)...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate the sum difference identities of two triangles
👉 Learn how to evaluate the secant of the sum or difference of two angles using the sum/difference formulas. To do this, we first use the Pythagoras theorem to obtain all the sides of the right triangle in the unit circle. Recall that...
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All the different ways to apply identities and then see which one works
👉 Learn how to simplify trigonometric expressions by factoring, expansion, and re-grouping. To simplify a trigonometric identity means to reduce the identity to the simplest form it can take which may be a number or a simple...
Brian McLogan
What are the sum and difference formulas for sine
👉 Learn all about sum and difference angle identities. In this video playlist, you will learn how to evaluate, solve, simplify and verify using sum and difference angle identities. We will evaluate using angles not found on the unit...
Brian McLogan
VERIFY an expression by using the difference of two angles of sine
👉 Learn how to verify the sum and difference of two angles trigonometric identities using the sum/difference formulas. To verify an identity means to ascertain that the left-hand side is equal to the right-hand side of the equality sign....