Brian McLogan
Learn how to determine the surface area of a triangular pyramid
👉 Learn how to find the volume and the surface area of a pyramid. A pyramid is a 3-dimensional object having a polygon as its base and triangular surfaces converging at a single point called its apex. A pyramid derives its name from the...
Brian McLogan
Simplify expressions using fundamental identities
👉 Learn how to simplify identities by factoring. Just like in normal algebraic expressions, trigonometric identities can be simplified by factoring out the GCFs from the terms of the identities, then common trigonometric identities like...
Brian McLogan
Understanding the relationship of polar and rectangular coordinates
Understanding the relationship of polar and rectangular coordinates
Brian McLogan
What is the angle of elevation and depression
👉 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 sine and cosine functions
👉 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
Solving trigonometric equations
👉 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
How to find the angle of elevation for a word problem
👉 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
Solving a proportion in two different methods 9/q = 15/10
👉 Learn how to solve proportions. Two ratios are said to be proportional when the two ratios are equal. Thus, proportion problems are problems involving the equality of two ratios. When given a proportion problem with an unknown, we...
Brian McLogan
How to use trigonometric functions to find the missing side of a triangle
How to use trigonometric functions to find the missing side of a triangle
Brian McLogan
Master Verifying Trigonometric Identities using cofunction and even odd identities
Master Verifying Trigonometric Identities using cofunction and even odd identities
Curated Video
Trig Ratios on the X and Y-Axes: Using Coordinates of the Unit Circle
In this video, the teacher explains how to find the sine, cosine, and tangent of angles on the x and y-axes using coordinates of a unit circle. They also discuss quadrantal angles and the concept of undefined trig ratios.
Brian McLogan
What are the Inverse Trigonometric functions and what do they mean?
👉 Learn how to evaluate inverse trigonometric functions. The inverse trigonometric functions are used to obtain theta, the angle which yielded the trigonometric function value. It is usually helpful to use the calculator to calculate the...
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Basic Trigonometric Identities: Pythagorean Identities and Cofunction Identities
An overview of basic trigonometric identities.
Brian McLogan
Find the missing length of a triangle using the cosine function
👉 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
Determine all of the solutions for a trigonometric equation with cosine and tangent
👉 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
What is a a degree
👉 Learn about angles in trigonometry. An angle is the figure formed by two rays sharing the same endpoint. The two rays are called the sides of the angle while the common endpoint of the two rays is called the vertex of the angle. Angle...
Brian McLogan
How to use a triangle to evaluate the six trig functions for an angle
👉 Learn how to evaluate the six trigonometric functions given a right triangle. A right triangle is a triangle with 90 degrees as one of its angles. A right triangle is made up of two legs, which formed the sides of the 90 degrees angle...
Brian McLogan
Understand where the pythagorean identities come from
👉 Learn all about the different trigonometric identities and how they can be used to evaluate, verify, simplify and solve trigonometric equations. The identities discussed in this playlist will involve the quotient, reciprocal,...
Brian McLogan
Graphing the Tangent Function with a Phase Shift and Reflection Over the X Axis
👉 Learn all about graphing trigonometric functions. In this playlist, we will explore how to graph the sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, cosecant and secant function. We will explore the characteristics of each graph as well as how to...
Brian McLogan
Find the angle of elevation when given the length of a shadow
👉 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 Graph Tangent
👉 Learn how to graph a tangent function. To graph a tangent function, we first determine the period (the distance/time for a complete oscillation), the phase shift (the horizontal shift from the parent function), the vertical shift (the...
Brian McLogan
What is the definition of the inverse Tangent function
👉 Learn how to evaluate inverse trigonometric functions. The inverse trigonometric functions are used to obtain theta, the angle which yielded the trigonometric function value. It is usually helpful to use the calculator to calculate the...
Brian McLogan
What is the Domain Range and Vertical Asymptote of Tangent
👉 Learn the basics of graphing a tangent and a cotangent function. To plot the tangent and the cotangent graph we choose a set of points and form a table of values with which we plot the points on the x-y coordinate axis to obtain the...