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
How to Write a Proof for Congruent Triangles Using SAS
👉 Learn how to prove that two triangles are congruent. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. There are many postulates and theorems to determine whether two triangles are congruent. They...
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
Law of sines Ambiguous case - 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
Word problem find the distance between two towns with 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
Finding the distance of an antenna using trigonometry of two triangles
👉 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
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...
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Area Of Trapezoids: Understanding the Trapezoid
What are the parts of a trapezoid? What happens when a trapezoid is divided in half? Area Of Trapezoids, Part 1
Brian McLogan
Learning to classify a triangle given three points
👉 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 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
Learn How to Prove Two Triangles are Congruent by SSS - Congruent Triangles
👉 Learn how to prove that two triangles are congruent. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. There are many postulates and theorems to determine whether two triangles are congruent. They...
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
Learn how to evaluate for an angle by sketching the angle and using reference angles
👉 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
Learn how to use period as an aide to evaluate sine for a negative angle
👉 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
How to determine if you have 0,1 or 2 triangles for the ambiguous case
👉 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,...
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Math Puzzle - Area of N sided shape
Can you find the area of an N sided regular shape? Use the result to prove a formula for calculating pi!
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Lines and Angles: Properties and Theorems
Lines and Angles part 2/2: This video explains the properties of triangles and their angles, including the measure of angles and the remote interior angle theorem. Through logical and analytical reasoning, we can understand the real-life...
Brian McLogan
Proving Two Angles are Congruent by their Proving Congruent Triangles
👉 Learn how to prove that two triangles are congruent. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. There are many postulates and theorems to determine whether two triangles are congruent. They...
Brian McLogan
How to Determine Corresponding Parts of Two Congruent Triangles
👉 Learn how to find the corresponding pairs of congruent triangles. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. To determine the corresponding congruent parts of a triangle, we use the congruent...
Brian McLogan
How Do You Represent AAS and ASA for Triangles - Congruent Triangles
👉 Learn about congruent triangles theorems. Two or more triangles (or polygons) are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. There are many methods to determine whether two triangles are congruent. Some of the methods...
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)...
Brian McLogan
Why we avoid the law of sines over the law of cosines with ambiguous triangles
Why we avoid the law of sines over the law of cosines with ambiguous triangles
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Similar Figures
In this video lesson, we will learn the definition of similar figures. Similar figures are figures that are the same shape but different sizes. Similar figures have corresponding sides that are proportional and corresponding angles that...
Brian McLogan
What is the Third Angle Theorem of Triangles
👉 Learn about congruent triangles theorems. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. There are many methods to determine whether two triangles are congruent. Some of the methods include: (1)...