Analytical Trigonometry Topics

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Graphing Trigonometric Functions

Graphs of trigonometric functions look a little crazy at first, especially if you're expecting to find more triangles. They aren't too bad, though, once we get the hang of them. Let's start by look...

Periodicity and Symmetry

Tick tock, tick tock, up and down, back and forth. Trig functions truck along, keeping time to the beat better than any metronome. There's a lot of repetition going on, and we can use it to our adv...

Inverse Trigonometric Functions

We feel like we've gotten to know angles really well lately. We've been working with trig functions a lot, using them to find all kind of errant angles. We might be the world's premier angle expert...

Trig Formulas

You know those commercials that show those poor, sad, abandoned animals just looking for a home? Well, in Trigonometry Land they could have those same commercials for poor, sad, forgotten angles.Th...

Trig Identities

Who are you? Who am I? Where did we come from, and where are we going? Could I eat an entire pizza by myself? These are all questions about our identity. Some of them are easier to answer than othe...

Trig For Triangles

Way back when we started learning trig, it was all about the triangles. Since then, we've branched out to waves and circles and formulas—and, aside from our special triangles, we pretty much lost...

Law of Sines and Cosines

Trig has been our trusty old friend whenever we have needed to find a missing side or angle in a right triangle, but where's the love for non-right triangles? Just because they don't have a right a...

In the Real World

Trig has lots of uses in the real world, from everyday life to the complicated stuff of engineers, physicists, astronomers, and more. Anywhere triangles are involved, trig can be involved too. And...