Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1
Part 1: Getting Started with Trigonometry 5
Chapter 1: Taking On Trig Technicalities 7
Chapter 2: Cooperating with Cartesian Coordinates 31
Chapter 3: Finding Degrees in Triangles and Planes 51
Chapter 4: Dishing Out the Pi: Radians 63
Chapter 5: Tackling Right Triangles 77
Part 2: Trigonometric Functions 89
Chapter 6: Describing Trig Functions 91
Chapter 7: Relating Triangles to Circular Functions 107
Chapter 8: Taking Trig Functions Global 123
Chapter 9: Applying Yourself to Trig Functions 139
Part 3: Identities 159
Chapter 10: Introducing Basic Identities 161
Chapter 11: Operating on Identities 177
Chapter 12: Proving Identities: The Basics 197
Chapter 13: Sleuthing Out Identity Solutions 213
Part 4: Equations and Applications 231
Chapter 14: Investigating Inverse Trig Functions 233
Chapter 15: Making Inverse Trig Work for You 241
Chapter 16: Solving Trig Equations 253
Chapter 17: Obeying the Laws and Applying Them 277
Part 5: The Graphs of Trig Functions 301
Chapter 18: Graphing Sine and Cosine 303
Chapter 19: Graphing Tangent and Cotangent 319
Chapter 20: Graphing Two More Trig Functions 327
Chapter 21: Topping Off Trig Graphs 339
Part 6: The Part of Tens 353
Chapter 22: Ten Basic Identities Plus Some Bonuses 355
Chapter 23: Ten Not-So-Basic Identities 361
Appendix: Graphs and Function Values 367
Index 373
