Trigonometric identities

April 20th, 2008

More important identities

You don’t have to know all the identities off the top of your head. But these you should.

Defining relations for tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant in terms of sine and cosine.
tan t = sin t


cos t
cot t = 1


tan t
= cos t


sin t
sec t = 1


cos t
csc t = 1


sin t
The Pythagorean formula for sines and cosines.
sin2 t + cos2 t = 1

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