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
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
Determine the complement and supplement of an angle ex 3, 3
👉 Learn how to find the complement and the supplement of a given angle. Two angles are said to be complementary if they add up to 90 degrees (pi/2 in radians) and are said to be supplementary if they add up to 180 degrees (pi in...
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...
Brian McLogan
What are the three basic trigonometric function ratios
👉 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
What are complementary and supplementary angles
👉 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
Learn how to solve a simple trig 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
Graphing an Angle with Multiple Revolutions
👉 Learn how to sketch angles in terms of pi. An angle is the figure formed by two rays sharing the same endpoint. Angle is measured in radians or in degrees. One complete revolution about a point is equivalent to 2pi radians and 360...
Brian McLogan
Learn how to distribute a trigonometric function and then simplify the expression
👉 Learn how to simplify trigonometric expressions by factoring, expansion, and re-grouping. To simplify a trigonometric identity means to reduce the identity to the simplest form it can take which may be a number or a simple...
Brian McLogan
Comparing the graphs of the six trigonometric functions
👉 Learn the basics of graphing trigonometric functions. The graphs of trigonometric functions are cyclical graphs which repeats itself for every period. To graph the parent graph of a trigonometric function, we first identify the...
Brian McLogan
Using trig properties to find the values of a right triangle
👉 Learn how to find a missing angle 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 gives us the relationship between the angles of a right...
Brian McLogan
How to use tangent to find the missing leg of a triangle
👉 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
Master Verifying Trigonometric Identities using the Sum and Difference formulas
Master Verifying Trigonometric Identities using the Sum and Difference formulas
Brian McLogan
What are the parts of a right 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
Learn how to find the missing side lengths of a 30 60 90 triangle
👉 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
Word Problems using trigonometry and bearings
👉 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 use cosine to find the missing side of a triangle
👉 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
What you need to know | Trigonometry
In this video we will cover the key topics you will need to know before starting our chapter on Trigonometry in Pre-calculus. We will start by working through the Pythagorean Theorem and then working through the trigonometric identities...
Brian McLogan
How to make sense of the ambiguous case problem
👉 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...
KnowMo
Pythagoras's Theorem: Applications and How to Solve Problems
This video is a lecture on Pythagoras's theorem, a fundamental concept in geometry that describes the relationship between the sides of a right-angled triangle. The video explains who Pythagoras was, his contribution to mathematics, and...
Brian McLogan
Evaluate limits with cosine and cotangent
👉 Learn how to evaluate the limit of a function involving trigonometric expressions. The limit of a function as the input variable of the function tends to a number/value is the number/value which the function approaches at that time....
Brian McLogan
Learn how to use special trig limits to evaluate
👉 Learn how to evaluate the limit of a function involving trigonometric expressions. The limit of a function as the input variable of the function tends to a number/value is the number/value which the function approaches at that time....
Brian McLogan
Evaluate the special trigonometric limit with sine
👉 Learn how to evaluate the limit of a function involving trigonometric expressions. The limit of a function as the input variable of the function tends to a number/value is the number/value which the function approaches at that time....