Basic Trigonometric Identities: Pythagorean Identities and Cofunction Identities

Now that we know what these trigonometric functions are, how do they relate to one another? In a variety of ways, in fact! There are lots of identities we will have to learn so that we can do algebra with trig functions later, so let's learn these now.
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Thanks so much for this video! i really appreciate the part where you derive the other pythagorean identities from that one identity. Our prof never really discussed the connection between the trigo identities so it was quite difficult to comprehend the need for these stuff to me but then I came across this vid so they made so MUCH sense now and it really helped me alot :))

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3:48 sin 30 = cos 90 -30 (because of unit circle theorem)

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I never understood why in the US they always teach students secant, cosecant and cotangent. I feel like they are never really that useful for more advanced topics and just add more confusion for students just learning about them.

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hi sir i want to clear my problems about cofunctions can you explain with example

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Tan · Cot = 1 ?????

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yes! sines and cosines cancel.

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x * 1/x = 1. Sec * Csc = 1 and Sin * Cos = 1 too.

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anything multiplied by it's reciprocal gives 1

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⁠​⁠​⁠@@connorconnor2421 Incorrect, I think what you meant was this: Sin * Csc = 1 and Cos * Sec = 1

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sir how do u obtain cofunction identitis for 270+x etc..

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If (sin θ)²+(cos θ)²=1, then does sqrt((sin θ)²+(cos θ)²)=(sin θ)²+(cos θ)² because sqrt(1)=1?

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Yes , you just expanded the RHS

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Addressing Cofunction Identities: Why do we define them as e.g. sin(θ) = cos(90° - θ) when we could also write: sin(θ) = cos(θ ± 90°) ? I assume direction to which we shift the angle does not matter als long as we shift for exactly 90°.

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because it doesn't always work in addition. for example sin(90) does not equal cos(180°). addition works for certain quadrants of certain functions

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@@azaria2977 you are right. i was thinking in terms of magnitude solely. thank you.

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@@joschaberg6940 you can look at it in graphical terms. it can make it way more intuitive, play with the sine and cosine graphs in desomos.

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in checking comprehension? there's nothing to explain, they are simply the identities that are listed in the tutorial.

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