sin(15 degrees) = ?

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We will evaluate the exact value of sin(15 degrees), i.e. sin(pi/12) but there are three ways of doing so. We will first use the angle-difference formula for sine, then the half-angle formula for sine, and finally a 15-75-90 special triangle. This tutorial will help you with your trigonometry and precalculus classes!
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0:00 3 ways of evaluating sin(15 degrees)
0:21 using angle difference formula
3:56 using half-angle identity
7:17 using15-75-90 special triangle

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@Qermaq 2 ай бұрын

I just memorized that the 15-75-90 triangle has legs root6-root2 and root6+root2, and hypotenuse 4.

@savitatawade2403 2 ай бұрын

@Qermaq 2 ай бұрын

@@savitatawade2403 It makes sense. We can remember 1 - root3 - 2 easily enough. It's not that far of a leap. I will grant you, other than the 45-45-90 the 30-60-90 and the 15-75-90 triangle, there are no other really good candidates for easy memorization. The Pythagorean right triangles have easy trig functions but irrational angle measures. The 36-54-90 and 18-72-90 are not hard to derive, but the nested radicals makes it really confusing to remember.

@savitatawade2403 2 ай бұрын

@@Qermaq ok

@Sam_Wich 2 ай бұрын

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@jesusthroughmary 2 ай бұрын

I like it, stealing

@Azazelea 2 ай бұрын

this is the first video ive seen of these that I was able to solve instinctively! I just finished taking trig, I really enjoyed it

@zehradiyab3439 2 ай бұрын

We can reach to choice (C) by multiplying of choice (B) by sqrt(2+sqrt(3))

@johnspathonis1078 2 ай бұрын

I liked the last method. I used the expansion for Cos(A +B) or Cos(2X) when A=B.

@TheBeardedMathMan 2 ай бұрын

Layin' down the knowledge in this one! I am going to steal some of this for my IB math course I teach, use it as a little seasoning to keep things spicy in class.

@klmcwhirter 2 ай бұрын

Waiting for the next video - love the expression of the result of different approaches as non-decimal values. Glad it is a next video so I have time to think about the results. Great job, teacher!

@Hungry_for_LIKES 2 ай бұрын

*The third one is 🥶*

@jamescollier3 2 ай бұрын

Does Amazon sell that whiteboard that erases with a tap

@bprpmathbasics 2 ай бұрын

Too bad they don't : )

@Samir-zb3xk 2 ай бұрын

math teachers have special powers

@colmx8441 2 ай бұрын

This video is amazing. As are all your videos doing everything by first principles and explaining in detail, your students are really lucky. :)

@tobedeclaredsoon 2 ай бұрын

Third one is just amazing 😮

@danapatelzick594 2 ай бұрын

As an engineer for years the objectives were a quick functional answer. Your presentation reveals a hidden world of wonders. This is really cool. Thanks.

@holyshit922 2 ай бұрын

How to consrtruct 90-75-15 triangle 1. Draw line through chosen point A and B 2. Draw circle in center at A and radius AB 3. Draw circle in center at B and radius AB Let intersection of those two circles be C and D 4. Draw line through points C and D 5. Draw circle in center C and radius AC Let point E be the intersection of line CD and circle at center in C and radius AC , C(C,AC) Let point M be the intersection of lines AB and CD Triangle AME will be 90-75-15 triangle

@volodymyrgandzhuk361 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I tried it in GeoGebra and it works! Did you come up with that yourself or did someone teach you that?

@holyshit922 2 ай бұрын

@@volodymyrgandzhuk361 I came to this construction with trigonometry tan(75) = 2+sqrt(3) = (1+sqrt(3)/2)/(1/2) Segment 1/2 length of original segment we can get from construction of equilateral triangle , sqrt(3)/2 is the length of height of equilateral triangle so i built this 90-75-15 triangle on equilateral triangle

@paulwood3460 2 ай бұрын

Simply wonderful 👍👍👏👏

@zachansen8293 2 ай бұрын

fun easy video!

@Just_A_Simple_guy 2 ай бұрын

thanks alot for teaching us these tricks, i am currently doing the chapter basic maths and these type of questions will help me alot in calculation for physics and maths

@jamescollier3 2 ай бұрын

a lot is two words.

@Sg190th 2 ай бұрын

The beauty of that half-angle identity.

@RohitKulan 2 ай бұрын

Funny you mentioned it, I made a community post about this not too long ago

@tobybartels8426 2 ай бұрын

The triangle method is closely related to the half-angle method, because it can be generalized to derive the half-angle formula. Just replace 30° with an arbitrary angle θ.

@tobybartels8426 2 ай бұрын

Now that I think about it, this really gives you the half-angle formula for the _cosine,_ not the sine. (Just rationalize the denominator, and factor to simplify.) Then you can get the half-angle formula for the sine by applying a Pythagorean identity. But if you get a half-angle formula for the sine _directly_ from the triangle, then it's not the usual one, and it's not as nice.

@gibbogle 2 ай бұрын

Funny, I did it by a 4th way. sin(30) = 1/2 = sin(2*15) = 2 sin(15)cos(15) = 2 sin(15)sqrt(1 - sin(15)^2) Let s = sin(15), s*sqrt(1 - s^2) = 1/4, s^2(1 - s^2) = 1/16. Let x = s^2, x(1-x) = 1/16 x^2 - x + 1/16 = 0, x = (1 +/- sqrt(1 - 4/16))/2 = (1 +/- sqrt(12/16))/2 choose the -, x = (1 - sqrt(3/4))/2 = (2 - sqrt(3))/4 = s^2 s = sin(15) = sqrt(2 - sqrt(3))/2 = 1/(2*sqrt(2 + sqrt(3))) I know, this is a very stupid way to do it.

@mspeir 2 ай бұрын

How do you calculate the sin/cos of an arbitrary angle?

@carultch 2 ай бұрын

The easiest way to explain how you could (in concept) calculate the sine or cosine of any angle, just with arithmetic operations, is to use Taylor series. First, you'd preprocess the angle to get it between -pi/4 and +pi/4, so that it is as close to zero as practical (the midpoint of the Taylor series). If the angle after preprocessing is >pi/4, you'd find the opposite trig function of its complimentary angle. For instance, given 255 degrees, this is 180 degrees away from 75 degrees, and a related angle is 15 degrees. The negative sine of 15 degrees will give you cos(255 deg), and the negative cosine of 15 degrees will give you sine of 255 deg. So we calculate the sine and cosine of 15 deg, which will indirectly tell us the opposite functions for 255 deg. Next, you'd translate to radians, and evaluate the Taylor series of the corresponding trig functions. Using Lagrange's error formula, you can determine how many terms you need to get the desired tolerance on the output of the trig function. Evaluating the Taylor series for sin(15 deg) & cos(15 deg): sin(15 deg) = sin(pi/12) = (pi/12) - (pi/12)^3/3! + (pi/12)^5/5! - (pi/12)^7/7! + ... = 0.258819, within a tolerance of 11 digits cos(15 deg) = cos(pi/12) = 1 - (pi/12)^2/2! + (pi/12)^4/4! - (pi/12)^6/6! + ... = 0.965926, within a tolerance of 10 digits This isn't the way calculators actually do it, since the CORDIC algorithm is more efficient. I'll leave that to you to search for.

@MarioFanGamer659 2 ай бұрын

At least for the double angle and 15-75-90 method, you can easily see that both answers are the same if you realise that the latter denominator is (half the) conjugate of the former's numerator.

@andreaahplay6152 Ай бұрын

easy, sin (90)=1 and 15= 90/6 so we divide both sides, sin (15)=1/6

@Galactic-MathWizard Ай бұрын

Nope. This approach does NOT work due to the fact that you are dividing the WHOLE function by 6, not the input. So, in fact, sin(90/6)≠1/6, But sin(90)/6 = 1/6

@matmiel4296 2 ай бұрын

Could someone tell me if sin(x) [x-acute] is an rational number only for x=30 degrees? Is it possible to prove that for example sin(1) is irrational number without calculate te value of it? thx;)

@benkelly2024 2 ай бұрын

As x increases from 0 to 90, sin(x) passes through every number between 0 and 1. So there are infinitely many acute angles for which sin(x) is a rational number.

@kavinesh_the_legend 2 ай бұрын

Me after watching this🗿🗿

@gineethr3025 2 ай бұрын

Answer within seconds √3-1/2√2 just easy😂😂😂😂

@hallrules 2 ай бұрын

most people like me only remember pi/6, pi/4, and pi/3, so this is basically answering sin(pi/4 - pi/6) which u gotta find on paper but yeah

@GirishManjunathMusic 2 ай бұрын

hey, kid, 'prove that the three are equivalent' was the homework, not 'what is sin(15°)'. quit pretending like you're a genius for knowing basic trigonometry and maybe people will actually like you instead of tolerating your presence.

@gineethr3025 2 ай бұрын

@@GirishManjunathMusic I hope your genius , I am so dumb that I only remembered sin basic value ok . I hope you to be good in the comments but don't be rude saying your are genius then I have a question why don't you find sin(43) and tell me with proof then your are genius

@GirishManjunathMusic 2 ай бұрын

@@gineethr3025 i never said I'm a genius, kid.

@savitatawade2403 2 ай бұрын

@@GirishManjunathMusicage?