Trigonometry Category Archive

Find Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Secant, Cosecant, and Cotangent from an Angle

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

This program finds the sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent, and two other angles of a right triangle. This program accepts one of the two non-right angles in the right triangle as input.

Find-Trig-Values Program Walkthrough:

  1. Trig Angle Screenshot 1

    Give an angle in degrees or radians. Make sure that the correct mode is set for the type of angle.

  2. Trig Angle Screenshot 2

    The type of trig function is displayed on top. In this case, it is Sine. The answer is then displayed in two formats. First it is displayed as the square root of a number because many trig values are radicals. Below that, the number is displayed in its decimal form. Lastly, the user is told in which variable this answer was saved.

  3. Trig Angle Screenshot 3

    The type of trig function is displayed on top. In this case, it is Cosine.

  4. Trig Angle Screenshot 4

    The type of trig function is displayed on top. In this case, it is Tangent.

  5. Trig Angle Screenshot 5

    The type of trig function is displayed on top. In this case, it is Secant.

  6. Trig Angle Screenshot 6

    The type of trig function is displayed on top. In this case, it is Cosecant.

  7. Trig Angle Screenshot 7

    The type of trig function is displayed on top. In this case, it is Cotangent.

  8. Trig Angle Screenshot 8

    The given angle measurement is displayed in degrees along with its counterpart in the described right triangle.

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Find reference angle

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Give any degree angle, and its reference angle will be found.

Reference-Angle Program Walkthrough:

  1. Reference Angle Screenshot 1

    Give a degree angle. In this case, 126 degrees is the given measurement.

  2. Reference Angle Screenshot 2

    The reference angle is displayed along with its location in a coordinate plane and the variable in which it was saved.

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