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Year 2 Trig at Physics Soc

This document provides tips and examples for solving trigonometry problems. It discusses addition and double-angle formulas, using identities to manipulate expressions, knowing half-angle formulas, and using harmonic identities to find maxima and minima.

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Year 2 Trig at Physics Soc

This document provides tips and examples for solving trigonometry problems. It discusses addition and double-angle formulas, using identities to manipulate expressions, knowing half-angle formulas, and using harmonic identities to find maxima and minima.

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Radians

Reciprocal and Inverse Trig


The Rest of Year 2 Trig
1. Addition formulae and proofs; use these in identity proofs and trig solving

2. Bring things to one side!

3. If you’ve got cos(a number) and sin(another number), use sinx=sin(90-x) and cosx=cos(90-x).
You can see here we converted cos50 into sin40 and sin5- into cos40, leaving us with just 40s
then doing the divide by cosxcos40 trick.

You also have sin=cos(90-x), cos=cosec(90-x), tan=cot(90-x). You then have your rules from
Argand: -sinx=sin(-x) and cos(-x)=cosx.
4. You can use addition formulae to turn sin15 into sin(60-45) and get things, but it also works
the other way around – consider turning things into known values!

5. For the ‘eliminate theta’ questions, rearrange for theta and think, what links these two
expressions?

6. Double-angle formulae and proofs; use these in identity proofs and trig solving
7. This one was fine but if you had a “tan4y and tan2y” or similar, leave the answer with tan2y!

8. If you have to split a double-angle formula and it’s a “show that” question but the thing you’re
trying to show isn’t actually split into single-angle formulae, the only other way of splitting it is
with basic addition!
9. Sometimes you’ll need to split theta into 2 times theta/2!

You might even need the half-angle formulae!

Here’s an example where you really do need the half-angle formulae; they aren’t a myth.

Here’s yet another example where you need the half-angle formulae; for part c though, you’re
also needing the trick of reversing identities i.e. don’t convert cos2x into cossquaredx, but
convert cossquaredx into cos2x.
And just to rub salt in the wounds of those who didn’t learn the half-angle formulae, here’s
another example where you need the half-angle formulae.

10. Have the two extra formulae in your back pocket! Sintheta=2tantheta/2///1+tan^2theta/2
and costheta = 1-tan^2theta/2///1+tan^2theta/2

11. Know how to choose your harmonic identity and how to then create it

12. Do harmonic identities where the argument is a multiple of x instead of x


13. Use the harmonic identity to find maxima and minima

If the harmonic identity is squared then the maximum is at 1 or -1, and the minimum is at 0
14. Sometimes you’ll have to manipulate the addition formula or the double angle formula!

The rest is fine, but for 1b) and 2a), write out the addition formula then replace A with P+Q, and B
with P-Q. Solve simultaneously for A in terms of P and Q, and B in terms of P and Q, then sub
into the addition formula.

For c) you realise it’s not always equation=0; it’s t=0 and then sub that in and get an output, then
do equation=output

The challenge question is a bit intuitive; energy proportional to E squared so 1/t proportional to
E squared, so k(1/t) = E squared. Use the model’s maximum value of E, and then the time given,
to find k. Then sub k and their desired time, to find E and then put E back into the model.
Limitations are that energy isn’t spread throughout perfectly, and microwave works slightly
di erently each time.

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