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008. Identities
Goals for this Assignment include but are not limited to the following:
1. Given an identity involving sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant and cotangent functions prove or disprove it using the Pythagorean identities and the definitions of these functions.
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Question: `q001. Note that there are four questions in this Assignment.
In general the sine and cosine functions and tangent function are defined for a circle of radius r centered at the origin. At angular position theta we have sin(theta) = y / r, cos(theta) = x / r and tan(theta) = y / x. Using the Pythagorean Theorem show that sin^2(theta) + cos^2(theta) = 1.
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`aThe Pythagorean Theorem applies to any point (x,y) on the unit circle, where we can construct a right triangle with horizontal and vertical legs x and y and hypotenuse equal to the radius r of the circle. Thus by the Pythagorean Theorem we have x^2 + y^2 = r^2.
Now since sin(theta) = y/r and cos(theta) = x/r, we have
sin^2(theta) + cos^2(theta) = (y/r)^2 + (x/r)^2 =
y^2/r^2 + x^2/r^2 =
(y^2 + x^2) / r^2 =
r^2 / r^2 = 1.
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Question: `q002. Using the fact that sin^2(theta) + cos^2(theta) = 1, prove that tan^2(theta) + 1 = sec^2(theta).
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`aStarting with tan^2(theta) + 1 = sec^2(theta) we first rewrite everything in terms of sines and cosines. We know that tan(theta) = sin(theta)/cos(theta) and sec(theta) = 1 / cos(theta). So we have
sin^2(theta)/cos^2(theta) + 1 = 1 / cos^2(theta).
If we now simplify the equation, multiplying both sides by the common denominator cos^2(theta), we get
sin^2(theta)/cos^2(theta) * cos^2(theta)+ 1 * cos^2(theta)= 1 / cos^2(theta) * cos^2(theta).
We easily simplify this to get
sin^2(theta) + cos^2(theta) = 1,
which is thus seen to be equivalent to the original equation tan^2(theta) + 1 = sec^2(theta).
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Question: `q003. Prove that csc^2(theta) - cot^2(theta) = 1.
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`aRewriting in terms of sines and cosines we get
1 / sin^2(theta) - cos^2(theta)/sin^2(theta) = 1.
We now multiply through by the common denominator sin^2(theta) to get
1 / sin^2(theta) * sin^2(theta) - cos^2(theta)/sin^2(theta) * sin^2(theta) = 1 * sin^2(theta), or
1 - cos^2(theta) = sin^2(theta).
This is easily rearranged to give us sin^2(theta) + cos^2(theta) = 1, which we know to be true. The original equation is thus equivalent to this true equation, and is therefore true.
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Question: `q004. Prove that sec^2(theta) * csc^2(theta) - csc^2(theta) = sec^2(theta).
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`aRewriting in terms of sines and cosines we get
1/cos^2(theta) * 1 / sin^2(theta) - 1/sin^2(theta) = 1/cos^2(theta).
We now multiply through by the common denominator sin^2(theta)* cos^2(theta) to get
sin^2(theta)* cos^2(theta) * 1/cos^2(theta) * 1 / sin^2(theta) - sin^2(theta)* cos^2(theta) * 1/sin^2(theta) = sin^2(theta)* cos^2(theta) * 1/cos^2(theta).
Simplifying we get
1 - cos^2(theta) = sin^2(theta), which we rearrange to get
sin^2(theta) + cos^2(theta) = 1.
Note that there are other strategies for proving identities, which you will see in your text.
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