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Some Trigonometric Formulas

  1. The fundamental formula is

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  2. Angle Addition Formulas

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  3. Setting B=A above (and also using the fundamental formula), we get the Double-Angle Formulas

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  4. Solving for tex2html_wrap_inline701 and tex2html_wrap_inline703 in the last two formulas gives us the Half-Angle Formulas

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Carl Lee
Wed Apr 21 08:17:28 EDT 1999