Semi-Legend: “I liked LeoJEOSP’s rendition of the Princeton University football cheer: ‘Accost them, accost them, make them relinquish the ball.’ [BB. 11/7/2013] “It put me in mind of MIT’s cheer: ‘E ...

Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships between the sides and angles of triangles. Trigonometry is found all throughout geometry, as every straight-sided shape may be broken ...

This circle has the centre at the origin and a radius of 1 unit. The point P can move around the circumference of the circle. At point P the \(x\)-coordinate is \(\cos{\theta}\) and the ...

Let’s look at how to use trigonometric identities to calculate missing sides. \({sin~θ} = \frac {opposite} {hypotenuse}\) \({cos~θ} = \frac {adjacent} {hypotenuse ...

Trigonometry is the branch of mathematics that explains the relationship between sides and angles of a triangle. In a right angled triangle the three sides are perpendicular, base and hypotenuse, as ...

Optical or magnetic sensors for position and angle sensing in motion control systems generally provide sine and cosine signals for conversion. The 90° phase shift between sine and cosine allows ...

Your piece in this week’s issue, “Sine Cosine Tangent,” looks at the teen-age son of divorced parents and his struggle to understand his own identity in light of theirs. It’s a natural impulse, of ...