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Identities Practice Test

1. The document provides 20 identities involving trigonometric functions like sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant and asks to establish, prove or disprove them. 2. It also asks to prove two additional identities: one involving x=acos(t) and y=bsin(t) and another expressing sin^2(θ) and sin(θ)cos(θ) in terms of tan(θ)=m. 3. The document contains exercises to work with basic trigonometric identities and their applications.

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Identities Practice Test

1. The document provides 20 identities involving trigonometric functions like sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant and asks to establish, prove or disprove them. 2. It also asks to prove two additional identities: one involving x=acos(t) and y=bsin(t) and another expressing sin^2(θ) and sin(θ)cos(θ) in terms of tan(θ)=m. 3. The document contains exercises to work with basic trigonometric identities and their applications.

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MATHEMATICS 60

Exercises on Basic Identities and Their Use

I. Establish the following identities.


sec θ − 1 1 − cos θ 11. sin2 z + 2 cos2 z = csc2 z − cos2 z cot2 z
1. =
sec θ + 1 1 + cos θ
cos2 α + cot2 α
2. sec4 y − sec2 y = tan4 y + tan2 y 12. = cot4 α + 2 cot2 α
1 − cos2 α
sin3 t − cos3 t 1 + cos x 1 − cos x
3. = 1 + sin t cos t 13. − = 4 cot x csc x
sin t − cos t 1 − cos x 1 + cos x
sec α + csc α cot α 1
4. = cot α csc α 14. = sec x + tan x
sec2 α sec x − tan x
sin3 γ sin2 γ cos γ sin γ
5. = 15. = 1 − cos γ
tan γ − sin γ 1 − cos γ csc γ + cot γ
csc s + cot s cos α
6. = csc s cot s 16. sec α − tan α =
sin s + tan s 1 + sin α
cot2 t − 1 17. (1 + sin x + cos x)2 = 2(1 + sin x)(1 + cos x)
7. = 1 − 2 sin2 t
cot2 t + 1
sec4 θ + tan4 θ cos4 θ
cot θ − tan θ 18. − =2
8. = sec θ csc θ sec2 θ tan2 θ sin2 θ
1 − 2 sin2 θ
cot γ − csc γ + 1 sin γ
9. sec2 α cot2 α − cos2 α csc2 α = 1 19. =
cot γ + csc γ − 1 1 + cos γ
tan β − sin β 1 − cos β
10. 3 = 20. ln |csc t + cot t| = − ln |csc t − cot t|
sin β sin2 β cos β

II. Show that each of the following equations is not an identity.


√
1. tan2 α + sec2 α = 1 4. sin θ = 1 − cos2 θ
1 + cos 2x
2. cos2 θ − sin2 θ = cos θ − sin θ 5. cot x =
1 − cos 2x
3. cos4 x − sin4 x = 1 p
6. tan y + cot y = sec2 y + csc2 y

x2 y 2
III. 1. If x = a cos t and y = b sin t, prove that + 2 = 1.
a2 b
2. Let tan θ = m. Express sin2 θ and sin θ cos θ in terms of m.

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