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Basic Ideas of Trigonometry
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1angle of elevationthe angle between the horizontal base of the object and the observer's line of sight to the object
- 2inverse sine functionthe function that maps sin x onto x is the inverse of the function that maps x onto sin x
- 3identitiesrelationships that are true for all values of variables in a domain
- 4periodic functiona function that a graph can be mapped onto itself by a horizontal translation
- 5sinusoidalsituations that lead to sin waves
- 6solving the triangleusing trigonometry to find all the missing measures of sides and angles of a triangle
- 7radiana measure of an angle, arc, or rotation such that π radians = 180 degrees
- 8sinelength of leg opposite divided by the length of hypotenuse
- 9cosinelength of leg adjacent divided by the length of hypotenuse
- 10tangentlength of leg opposite divided by the length of leg adjacent
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