Trigonometry
The precursors to what we study today as Trigonometry had their origin in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece and India. These cultures used the concepts of angles and lengths as an aid to understanding the movements of the heavenly bodies in the night sky. Ancient trigonometry typically used angles and tri...
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Richard W. Beveridge
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Right Triangle Trigonometry
- 1.1 Measuring Angles
- 1.2 The Trigonometric Ratios
- 1.3 Solving Triangles
- 1.4 Applications
- 1.5 More Applications
- 2. Graphing the Trigonometric Functions
- 2.1 Trigonometric Functions of Non-Acute Angles
- 2.2 Graphing Trigonometric Functions
- 2.3 The Vertical Shift of a Trigonometric Function
- 2.4 Phase Shift
- 2.5 Combining the Transformations
- 3. Trigonometric Identities and Equations
- 3.1 Reciprocal and Pythagorean Identities
- 3.2 Double-Angle Identities
- 3.3 Trigonometric Equations
- 3.4 More Trigonometric Equations
- 4. The Law of Sines; The Law of Cosines
- 4.1 The Law of Sines
- 4.2 The Law of Sines: the ambiguous case
- 4.3 The Law of Cosines
- 4.4 Applications