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#26 2014-06-03 03:32:56

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Thanks.

Explain the second line please?


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#27 2014-06-03 05:00:54

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Well, you get the middle term from the two middle terms of the previous line and the last term from the last term of the previous line.

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#28 2014-06-03 06:41:26

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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense"  - Buddha?

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#29 2014-06-12 19:16:36

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Help me!

Evaluate


'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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#30 2014-06-12 19:41:23

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Re: Trig Proof Help

hi Agnishom,

You'll need a large sheet of paper or to write small.  smile

Once you've multiplied this out, nearly everything cancels. 

I converted all to sines with

But you can also simplify with the double angles instead.

Bob

Last edited by Bob (2014-06-12 19:44:27)


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#31 2014-06-12 19:43:17

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Regarding writing small:
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'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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#32 2014-06-12 19:45:15

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Re: Trig Proof Help

roflol

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#33 2014-06-12 21:52:31

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Re: Trig Proof Help

But .....

Thought I'd made a mistake as my final simplified answer was a trig function of A, not a number.

Couldn't find a mistake so I set up the expression in Excel and tried a few angles.  I consistently got the result I'd got by algebra and trig formulas.

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#34 2014-06-12 23:38:17

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Re: Trig Proof Help

What results are you getting?

That multiplication is tedious, I've not done it.(yet)

Last edited by Agnishom (2014-06-12 23:38:37)


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#35 2014-06-13 00:42:27

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Tedious maybe, but good for you anyway.

I've ended up with cos(2A)

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#36 2014-06-13 03:02:44

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Agnishom, it would have been much simpler if I have seen cos(2A+2B) at the end instead...

I am getting cos(2A).

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#37 2014-06-13 05:40:44

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I am sorry, things are not cancelling.


'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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#38 2014-06-13 05:52:38

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Use a CAS to multiply it out.

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#39 2014-06-13 05:55:37

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There will be no CAS when I will show this to Amrita


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#40 2014-06-13 06:09:28

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Hi Agnishom;

Just to show you it is possible

TrigReduce[2 Sin[B]^2 + 4 (Cos[B] Cos[B] - Sin[A] Sin[B])*Sin[A] Sin[B] + (Cos[A]^2 - Sin[A]^2) (Cos[B]^2 - Sin[B]^2) -  2 Sin[A] Cos[B]*2 Sin[B] Cos[B]]

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#41 2014-06-13 06:09:42

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Re: Trig Proof Help

Then you will have to multiply by hand - error prone.

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#42 2014-06-13 07:43:57

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It took me five lines on a sheet of A4 paper.  Admittedly, the lines were quite long, but two long terms cancelled straight away, so that made it simpler.  I'd show you but then you wouldn't get the benefit of doing it yourself smile .

Is this what the computer-wise generation has come to; that we cannot multiply out a simple expression ?

Go to it, boy wonder!

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#43 2014-06-13 07:52:49

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Re: Trig Proof Help

bob bundy wrote:

Is this what the computer-wise generation has come to; that we cannot multiply out a simple expression ?

Go to it, boy wonder!

Bob

We're lazy.

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#44 2014-06-13 08:00:43

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But it's good for the brain. 

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