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The document provides a history of trigonometry, beginning with its origins in ancient Greece and developments by early mathematicians. It then covers key concepts in trigonometry including the quadrants, converting between degree and radian measure, trigonometric functions and their relations, and solving for sides in right triangles using trigonometric ratios. Special angles and trigonometric tables are also mentioned as resources.

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Trigonometry Reviewer

The document provides a history of trigonometry, beginning with its origins in ancient Greece and developments by early mathematicians. It then covers key concepts in trigonometry including the quadrants, converting between degree and radian measure, trigonometric functions and their relations, and solving for sides in right triangles using trigonometric ratios. Special angles and trigonometric tables are also mentioned as resources.

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Trigonometry Reviewer

I. History and Development of Trigonometry


 Greeks
o Started early astronomy
o Spherical Trigonometry used to describe heavenly bodies
 Hipparchus of Nicaea
o Founded Trigonometry
o First to construct an accurate table of the ratios of sides of a right triangle
 Claude Ptolemy
o Table of Trigonometric ratios for angles between 0 to 180 degrees using half a degree
o Almagest
o Geocentric theory – earth at the center of the universe
 Nasir Eddin
o Arabian
o First independent Trigonometry book
 Hindus and Arabs
o Tangent, Cotangent, Sine concepts
 Georg von Purbach
o Revived Trigonometry in Renaissance
o Used Arabic symbols to make a table of sines of unprecedented accuracy
 Johann Muller
o A.k.a. Regiomontanus
o German astronomer
o Translated almagest
 Georg Joachim Iserin
o A.k.a. Rhaeticus
o German astronomer
o Defined the 6 Trigonometric
 Francois Viete
o Simplified the exposition of trigonometry
 Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
o wrote a book called Trigonometry
 William Oughtred
o Simplified sine into sin, cosine to cos, etc.
 Leonhard Euler
o Best writer on math of all time
o Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum
 Abraham de Moivre
o Miscellanea Analytica
II. Quadrants---------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------->
III. Equations part 1
 Rotation to degrees
o x/y • 360/1
o clockwise = negative, counter clockwise = positice
 Coterminal (o< angle < 360)
o Subtract by 360 if positive till a value of 0 < angle < 360 is reached. i.e. 750 – 360 = 390 – 360 = 30
o Add 360 if negative i.e. -450 +360 = -90 + 360 = 70
 Degree (X) to Radian (Y)
o X • Pi/180. ie. 360 deg • Phi/180 = 2Pi
1. Note: One Pi is equal to 180 deg
 Radian (Y) to Degree (X)
o Y • 180/Pi ie. 2Pi • 180/Pi = 360 deg
 Decimal Degree to DMS
o 351.582 deg = given value
o 351 + 0.582 (60) = separate the whole number from the decimal and multiply the deci by 60
o 351+ 34.92 =repeat
o 351 + 34 + 0.92(60)
o 351 deg 34’ 55.2” = final answer
 DMS to Degree
o -267 deg 30’ 36” =given
o 267 deg + (30/60) + (36/3600)=divide the minute by 60 and the second by 3600
o 267 + 0.5 + 0.01 = add
o -267.51 deg = final answer
 Trigonometric Functions
o ------------------------------------------------------>
o SOH – CAH – TOA
1. Sin = Opp/ Hyp
2. Cos = Adj/ Hyp
3. Tan = Opp/Adj
o On a Cartesian Plane
1. QI = all values are positive
2. QII = sin and csc are positive
3. QIII = tan and cot are positive
4. QIV = cos and sec are positice
o Solving with a given point
1. (-6, -8) = given, what is required is “r”
2. sqr root [(-6)² + (-8)²] =to solve for “r”, use the equation “sqr root[x² + y²]”
3. 10 = simplify
o Cofunction
1. Sin is to csc, sec is to cos, and tan is to cot
2. given a value, like sin 50, it’s cofunction is the equivalent opposite function, whose values
sum to 90, in this case being csc 40

Special angles can be found in the book along with the tables

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