Thursday, April 24, 2014


Doing the inverse of the first formula, get F(n-2)=F(n-1)/F(n). Should use modulus operators, but MEH. If want tangent, which is F(3), we know that this is F(2)/F(1) = F(3), and since F(2)=Sin and F(1)=cos, Sin/Cos = Tan. cos^2+sin^2=1, 1^2+tan^2 = sec^2, cot^2+1^2=csc^2

Calculator can't tell you how to use it or remember each one or all the formulas that relate them.

 Sine Function   

In that animation, the angle of that triangle in the circle and the height of the triangle are correlated by the sine function. Cosine is the base. But only when the radius of the circle is 1. Else it's r*cos(angle) or r*sin(angle)  


Now, looking at that triangle I showed you at first, it is clear that when the height is 1, the base is zero, and vice versa. When sin(0) = 0 since at zero degrees the height is zero. sin(90) = 1 since the height is of the triangle becomes equal to the radius at 90 degrees. cos(0) = 1, since cosine is just the base length and the triangle is all base at an angle of zero. Tan is the slope, because it is a ratio of y/x, which in this case is Sin/Cos or Height/Base

All of this can be used to do things like find out how tall something is without ever reaching it, based on angles a multiple positions. It is also how triangulation works, and this helps to locate where you are using only a few cell towers. 

    
  
 

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