🔍Sine, cosine, and tangent are nouns used to describe angle functions.
📐Sine and cosine can be represented as ratios of sides in a right triangle.
⭕Sine and cosine can also be represented as coordinates on a unit circle.
📈Tangent represents the slope of a line and can be calculated as the ratio of sine to cosine.
📏These functions help us understand the relationship between angles and lines or sides in mathematics.
What do sine, cosine, and tangent represent?
—Sine represents vertical displacement, cosine represents horizontal displacement, and tangent represents the slope of a line.
How are sine and cosine related to right triangles?
—Sine and cosine can be represented as ratios of sides in a right triangle.
What is a unit circle?
—A unit circle is a circle with a radius of one unit and is often used to represent sine and cosine values as coordinates.
How is tangent calculated?
—Tangent can be calculated as the ratio of sine to cosine.
Why are these functions important in mathematics?
—These functions help us understand the relationship between angles and lines or sides in mathematics, making them fundamental in trigonometry and geometry.
00:00Sine, cosine, and tangent are nouns used to describe angle functions.
00:30Sine and cosine can be represented as ratios of sides in a right triangle.
02:22Sine and cosine can also be represented as coordinates on a unit circle.
04:38Tangent represents the slope of a line and can be calculated as the ratio of sine to cosine.
06:16These functions help us understand the relationship between angles and lines or sides in mathematics.
