2-2-35 unit circle
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This problem is totally about understanding our unit circle
and or our right triangles and knowing how to use them.
So sine of 45 if I think about my unit circle, 4545 right
triangle means my two sides are equivalent in lengths.
Now using my a ^2 + b ^2 = C ^2 I can find the hypotenuse.
The hypotenuse being the side opposite the right angle.
So 1 ^2 + 1 ^2 = C ^2.
So we get C being sqrt 2.
Now in a unit circle, that hypotenuse has to be one.
So what we're going to do is we're going to divide every side
by sqrt 2, because if I do one side, I have to do all of them.
And sqrt 2 / sqrt 2 is now one.
We rationalize the rest of this.
So we're going to multiply by root 2 over root 2 to
rationalize.
So we get sqrt 2 / 2 for the two sides.
Remember the sine is how far up I've gone.
So if we do an ordered triplet, we go over to the right root 2 /
2, we go up root 2 / 2, and then the Y divided by the X is 1 and
that's cosine, sine and tangent.
So our first part of the sine 45 is just going to be root 2 / 2.
We're going to do the same thing for cosine of 60.
And I was actually going to put them both on the same triangle
or on the circle, but I think it's a little too busy.
So I'm going to do my own over here when I have sinus 60.
This is my 60°.
That makes this a 306090.
Now we could think about this as being a 6060 sixty equilateral
if we wanted to.
If we did that, what we would do is we'd make the sides each two
so that when I cut the base in half, we got one.
Now we're going to find that last side.
So a ^2 + b ^2 = C ^2 again.
So this time we have 1 ^2 plus our b ^2 because we know the
hypotenuse this time.
So b ^2 = 4 -, 1 or B is sqrt 3.
Now, just like before, we want the hypotenuse to be one.
So we're going to take this entire thing and divide
everything through by two because 2 / 2 is 1.
So we can see that we've gone over 1/2.
We've gone up root 3 / 2.
And then if I divide my sine divided by cosine or my y / X,
I'd get root 3.
So when it says what's cosine of 60 we can see that that's 1/2
and when we multiply these two we get sqrt 2 / 4.