Brian McLogan
What is a slope triangle and how do we use it to determine slope
👉 Learn all about the slope of a line. The slope of a line is the steepness of the line. The horizontal line has a zero slope while the vertical line has an undefined slope. To determine the slope of a line, we need to know the...
Brian McLogan
What does the sine of an angle actually mean
👉 Learn all about the trigonometry of right triangles. A right triangle is a triangle that has 90 degrees as one of its angles. The trigonometric identities of right triangles give us the relationship between the angles of a right...
Brian McLogan
How to use special right triangles to find missing lengths
👉 Learn about the special right triangles. A special right triangle is a right triangle having angles of 30, 60, 90, or 45, 45, 90. Knowledge of the ratio of the length of sides of a special right triangle enables us to solve for any...
Brian McLogan
Given the long leg of a special right triangle determine the missing lengths
👉 Learn about the special right triangles. A special right triangle is a right triangle having angles of 30, 60, 90, or 45, 45, 90. Knowledge of the ratio of the length of sides of a special right triangle enables us to solve for any...
Brian McLogan
Find the value of cosine when given the angle
👉 Learn all about the trigonometry of right triangles. A right triangle is a triangle that has 90 degrees as one of its angles. The trigonometric identities of right triangles give us the relationship between the angles of a right...
Brian McLogan
How to determine the length of a triangle using the sine function
👉 Learn how to solve the word problems with trigonometry. Word problems involving angles, including but not limited to: bearings, angle of elevations and depressions, triangles problems etc are solved using trigonometry. To be able to...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate the difference for two angles for sine from a triangle
Learn how to evaluate the sine of an angle in degrees using the sum/difference formulas. To do this, we first express the given angle as a sum or a difference of two (easy to evaluate) angles, then we use the unit circle and the...
Brian McLogan
Given a point find the six trigonometric functions of the angle
👉 Learn all about evaluating trigonometric functions with triangles. In this playlist, we will learn how to evaluate, sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant when given the sides of a triangle. If we have missing sides we...
Brian McLogan
Finding the distance of a plane south give a bearing using trig
👉 Learn how to solve the word problems with trigonometry. Word problems involving angles, including but not limited to: bearings, angle of elevations and depressions, triangles problems etc are solved using trigonometry. To be able to...
Brian McLogan
Evaluating the composition of inverse functions using triangles
👉 Learn how to evaluate an expression with the composition of a function and a function inverse. Just like every other mathematical operation, when given a composition of a trigonometric function and an inverse trigonometric function,...
Brian McLogan
Evaluating the composition of inverse functions trigonometry
👉 Learn how to evaluate an expression with the composition of a function and a function inverse. Just like every other mathematical operation, when given a composition of a trigonometric function and an inverse trigonometric function,...
Brian McLogan
Evaluating six trigonometric functions of a right triangle
👉 Learn how to evaluate the six trigonometric functions given the value of one of the trigonometric functions. When given the value of one of the trigonometric functions of an angle, we can evaluate the values of the other trigonometric...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate your six trigonometric functions when given a point not on the unit circle
In this video series I show you how to evaluate your trigonometric functions for any angle. When we have a point that is not on the unit circle we create a triangle to help us evaluate our trig functions and then create a right triangle...
Curated Video
Finding Distance with Pythagorean Theorem
In this video, the teacher explains how to use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance between two cities on a coordinate plane, using a standardized test question as an example. The teacher walks through the steps of identifying...
Brian McLogan
The intro to the trig functions for points on the unit circle
👉 Learn about the points on the unit circle. A unit circle is a circle which radius is 1 and is centered at the origin in the cartesian coordinate system. To construct the unit circle we take note of the points where the unit circle...
Brian McLogan
Solve for the missing side of a right triangle using the pythagorean theorem ex
👉 Learn how to find a missing side length of a right triangle. A right triangle is a triangle that has 90 degrees as one of its angles. The trigonometric identities of right triangles give us the relationship between the angles of a...
Brian McLogan
How to find the legs of a special right triangle when given the hypotenuse
👉 Learn about the special right triangles. A special right triangle is a right triangle having angles of 30, 60, 90, or 45, 45, 90. Knowledge of the ratio of the length of sides of a special right triangle enables us to solve for any...
Brian McLogan
Finding the bearing of a plane using trigonometry
👉 Learn how to solve the word problems with trigonometry. Word problems involving angles, including but not limited to: bearings, angle of elevations and depressions, triangles problems etc are solved using trigonometry. To be able to...
Brian McLogan
How to classify a triangle using the Pythagorean inequality Theorem ex 2
👉 Learn how to classify triangles. A triangle is a polygon with three sides. Triangles are classified on the basis of its angles or on the basis of its side lengths. The classification of triangles on the bases of its angles are: acute,...
Brian McLogan
How to determine the three trigonometric ratios for a triangle
👉 Learn all about the trigonometry of right triangles. A right triangle is a triangle that has 90 degrees as one of its angles. The trigonometric identities of right triangles give us the relationship between the angles of a right...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate six trig functions given an equation and creating a right triangle
👉 Learn how to evaluate the six trigonometric functions given the value of one of the trigonometric functions. When given the value of one of the trigonometric functions of an angle, we can evaluate the values of the other trigonometric...
Brian McLogan
How to Find the Missing Angle Using Inverse Sine Triangle
👉 Learn how to evaluate inverse trigonometric functions. When an angle is unknown but the value of one of the trigonometric functions of the angle is known, we can evaluate the value of the angle using the inverse trigonometric function...
Brian McLogan
Double angle of cosine using right triangle
👉 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)...
Curated Video
Using Pythagorean Theorem to Find the Distance Between Two Points
In this video lesson we will learn how to create a right triangle in the coordinate plane to use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the diagonal distance between to points. We will find the perimeter of a right triangle in the coordinate...