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How To Remember Special Values of Sine and Cosine

The document provides a table for remembering special exact values of the sine and cosine functions in Quadrant I. The table lists important angles of 0°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90° and their corresponding sine and cosine values which are related by special values involving square roots. It also notes that sine increases from 0 to 1 while cosine decreases from 1 to 0 in Quadrant I, providing ways to remember this using graphs or the unit circle. Examples are given to compute values outside Quadrant I using reference angles and trigonometric identities.

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How To Remember Special Values of Sine and Cosine

The document provides a table for remembering special exact values of the sine and cosine functions in Quadrant I. The table lists important angles of 0°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90° and their corresponding sine and cosine values which are related by special values involving square roots. It also notes that sine increases from 0 to 1 while cosine decreases from 1 to 0 in Quadrant I, providing ways to remember this using graphs or the unit circle. Examples are given to compute values outside Quadrant I using reference angles and trigonometric identities.

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How To Remember Special Values of Sine and Cosine

The following is a special table for remembering the special exact values of the sine and cosine functions in Quadrant I. The key to the following table is just knowing a few simple patterns. The rst is to know the important angles in Quadrant I: These are (in degrees) 0 , 30 , 45 , 60 , 90 (note the quadrantal angles 0 and 90 have been included). The second is to recognize the special n values of the sine and cosine functions all have the form as follows: 2 0 = 0 = 30 6 = 45 4 = 60 3 = 90 2 sin 0 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 = = 0 =0 2 1 2 cos 4 2 3 2 2 2 1 2 0 2 = 2 =1 2

1 = 2

1 = 2 = = 1 2 0 =0 2

2 =1 2

In order to reproduce the above table, you also need to remember that sin increases from 0 to 1 in Quadrant I, while cos decreases from 1 to 0 in Quadrant I. There are several ways to keep them straight: One way is you can remember the graphs of the sine and cosine function and thereby recall that sin 0 = 0, cos 0 = 1. Another way is to recall the unit circle picture of the trigonometric functions. Recall that on the unit circle, at angle , (x, y ) = (cos , sin ). As = 0 is the positive x axiswhich hits the unit circle at (1, 0)we have (1, 0) = (x, y ) = (cos 0, sin 0), cos 0 = 1, sin 0 = 0.

The values of angles outside Quadrant I can be computed using reference angles, and the values of the other trigonometric functions can be computed using the reciprocal and quotient identities. Example: Compute sec 4 and tan 3 .

sec

1 = = 4 cos 4

1
1 2

2,

tan

sin = 3 cos

3 3

3 2 1 2

3.

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