Brian McLogan
Pre-Calculus - Finding the missing sides of a 45 45 90 triangle using special relationships
👉 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 solve a trigonometric equation with tangent
👉 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
Applying the sum of two angles tangent formula
👉 Learn how to evaluate the tangent 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
Solving for all solutions of sine with a multiple angle
👉 Learn how to solve trigonometric equations. There are various methods that can be used to evaluate trigonometric equations, they include by factoring out the GCF and simplifying the factored equation. Another method is to use a...
Brian McLogan
Solving an equation with multiple angles between 0 and 2pi
👉 Learn how to solve trigonometric equations. There are various methods that can be used to evaluate trigonometric equations, they include by factoring out the GCF and simplifying the factored equation. Another method is to use a...
Brian McLogan
How to evaluate for the half angle of cosine
👉 Learn how to evaluate the Sine of an angle using the half-angle formula. The half-angle formula for Sine is helpful when you need to determine the exact value of function given an angle but cannot use a calculator or the angle is not...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate for the sine of an angle using the sum of two angles
👉 Learn all about sum and difference angle identities. In this video playlist, you will learn how to evaluate, solve, simplify and verify using sum and difference angle identities. We will evaluate using angles not found on the unit...
Brian McLogan
Solving trigonometric equations
👉 Learn how to solve trigonometric equations. There are various methods that can be used to evaluate trigonometric equations, they include factoring out the GCF and simplifying the factored equation. Another method is to use a...
Brian McLogan
Solving trigonometric equations with multiple angles
👉 Learn how to solve trigonometric equations. There are various methods that can be used to evaluate trigonometric equations, they include by factoring out the GCF and simplifying the factored equation. Another method is to use a...
Brian McLogan
How do we determine when there is one or two cases for the law of sines
👉 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 and...
Brian McLogan
Find the solutions to a trigonometric equation by factoring
👉 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
Find all the solutions to a simple trigonometric equation
👉 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
Determining the missing measurements of a triangle using the law of sines one 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,...
Brian McLogan
How to create the graphs of tangent and cotangent from the unit circle
👉 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...
Brian McLogan
How to evaluate for the composition of two trigonometric 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
Sum and Difference Formula Evaluate Right Triangles
Sum and Difference Formula Evaluate Right Triangles
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Create the Unit Circle | Do you understand?
Create the Unit Circle | Do you understand?
Brian McLogan
Learning the basics of the sine and cosine graph and their points
👉 Learn the basics to graphing sine and cosine functions. The sine graph is a sinusiodal graph with x-intercepts at x = 2n*pi, maximun value of 1 at x = pi/2 + 2n*pi and minimum value of -1 at x = -pi/2 + 2n*pi. The cosine graph is a...
Brian McLogan
How to find ALL of the x intercepts
👉 Learn how to graph a sine function. To graph a sine function, we first determine the amplitude (the maximum point on the graph), the period (the distance/time for a complete oscillation), the phase shift (the horizontal shift from the...
Brian McLogan
Evaluating Inverse Trigonometric Functions
👉 Learn how to evaluate the inverse of reciprocal trigonometric functions. Recall that the reciprocal trigonometric functions are given by the ratio of 1 and the corresponding trigonometric function. When an angle is unknown but the...
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Evaluate the trig function of cosine and inverse tangent
👉 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
Pc Unit 3 How to evaluate for sine using the unit circle for an angle larger than 2pi
👉 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...