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Trig identities help?
Prove the identity:
(cosθ - sinθ) / (cosθ + sinθ) = sec2(θ) - tan2(θ)
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3 Answers
- JohnathanLv 711 months ago
(cos(theta) - sin(theta)) / (cos(theta) + sin(theta))
= (cos(theta) - sin(theta))^2 / (cos(theta) + sin(theta))(cos(theta) - sin(theta))
= (cos^2(theta) - 2 sin(theta)cos(theta) + sin^2(theta)) / (cos^2(theta) - sin^2(theta))
= (1 - 2 sin(theta)cos(theta)) / cos(2theta)
= (1 - sin(2theta)) / cos(2theta)
= 1/cos(2theta) - sin(2theta)/cos(2theta)
= sec(2theta) - tan(2theta).
Word of advice: might wanna move each left parenthesis over and include the 2 in each pair of parentheses. Someone may mistake the right side as sec^2(theta) - tan^2(theta), which BTW is 1.
As for proving your given identity the key is to multiply numerator and denominator by cos(theta) - sin(theta). That leads to a difference of squares in the denominator, cos^2(theta) - sin^2(theta), which is an equivalent for the cosine of a double angle, cos(2theta). In the numerator you have a perfect square, cos^2(theta) - 2 sin(theta)cos(theta) + sin^2(theta). There you'd make 2 substitutions: cos^2(theta) + sin^2(theta) is 1, and -2 sin(theta)cos(theta) is -sin(2theta). (1 - sin(2theta)) / cos(2theta) results; from there break this up into a difference of two expressions with the same denominator and finish.
- Anonymous11 months ago
I'm not sure you've written it down right, it looks false. If the RHS has squared in it for 2 then it's fdlse
Sec to power 2 minus tan to the power 2 is 1