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What is the period length of sin, cos, and tangent functions?

I know the whole 2pi/b thing but thats not what I'm talking about. In this problem we did, it was like arcsin[sin5pi/3]

and i thought the answer would just be 5pi/3, because you're undoing what you just did, but the answer was -pi/3, because 5pi/3 was out of range. Is the range for sin functions 0 to pi/2? or pi?

ahhh I dont remember and my final is on monday. I recall talking about this a long time ago and a I THINK range of tangent is (0, pi)? No idea....

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  • 1 decade ago
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    the period if sin and cos is 2pi and tan is pi.

    but you are talking about Sin, Cos and Tan which are the restricted domain functions

    Sin is from -pi/2 to pi/2

    Cos is 0 to pi

    Tan id o to pi, I think.

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    4 years ago

    Radian is a diploma of perspective, only as diploma is. a million diploma = a million/360 of a circle. So how plenty is one radian? while you're taking the radius of the circle, and lay it around the circle (think of of a bite of string whose length is the radius wrapped around the circle), then in case you draw strains to the two end of it, the perspective between them is a million radian. this is the definition: "the perspective subtended by using a million radius of arc" in math talk. it works out to be approximately fifty seven.3 stages and precisely 2 pi (that's certainly no longer an integer) angles of a million radian each and every will make an entire circle. (it truly is approximately 6 and a million/4 of them, or 6.28 slightly greater wisely). only as 360 angles of a million diploma make an entire circle. and actually it truly is all there is to it. because of the fact 2 pi of them make a circle, fractions of a circle (in any different case widespread as angles) are often expressed in terms of pi. each and every perspective is a few variety of radians and additionally some equivalent variety of stages. utilising pi radians = a hundred and eighty stages, it is complication-free to get different equivalents. that's a table --- ---- ----- ---- stages .... Radians 0 .... ... ... .... 0 30 ... ... ... .... pi/6 ... (when you consider that a hundred and eighty/6 = 30) 40 5 ... . ... .... ..pi/4 60 .... ... ... .... pi/3 ninety ... ... ... .... pi/2 a hundred and twenty ... .... .... 2 pi / 3 a hundred thirty five ... .... .... 3 pi / 4 a hundred and fifty .... .... .... 5 pi / 6 a hundred and eighty .... .... .... pi you may save getting in this manner. the perspective on your situation ... 4 pi / 3 = 4 * 60 stages or 240 stages. So only because of the fact the factor on the unit circle for 60 stages (or pi / 3) has (x, y) coordinates of (a million/2, sqrt(3)/2) the only for 240 stages = (a hundred and eighty + 60) or 4 pi /3 has coordinates (-a million/2, - sqrt(3) / 2). those coordinates are the place the line from the inspiration intersects the unit circle if it is drawn on the desired perspective.

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