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Proving Trigonometric Identities

Warm Up: (use identities to simplify)

1.

2.

3.

1 cos 2 x
cos x

sin x

csc x sin x

sec( x )
4.

Hints for Proving Identities:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Examples:

cos 2 x
sin x csc x
sin x

Section 7.2 (Day 2)

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Section 7.2 (Day 2)

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(sin x cos x) 2 (sin x cos x) 2 2

25.

(csc x 1)(csc x 1) cot 2 x

27.

31.

2 sin 2 x
sec x cos x
cos x

sec( x) cot x
1
csc( x)
35.

29.

tan x cot x csc x sec x

cos( x) 1 1 cos x sin 2 x

33.

37.

1
1

1
2
csc x sec2 x

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Section 7.2 (Day 2)

1
1

2sec 2 x
1 sin x 1 sin x

39.

Reciprocal Identities:

1
sec
1
sec
cos

1
csc
1
csc
sin

1
cot
1
cot
tan

cos

sin

tan

Quotient Identities:

tan

sin
cos

cot

cos
sin

Pythagorean Identities:

sin 2 cos 2 1

tan 2 1 sec 2

1 cot 2 csc 2
Even-Odd Identities:

sin( x) sin x
csc( x) csc x

Odd
tan( x) tan x

cot( x) cot x

cos( x) cos x

sec( x) sec x

Even

Reciprocal Identities:

1
csc
1
csc
sin

sin

Quotient Identities:

1
sec
1
sec
cos
cos

1
cot
1
cot
tan
tan

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tan

sin
cos

Section 7.2 (Day 2)

cot

cos
sin

Pythagorean Identities:

sin 2 cos 2 1

tan 2 1 sec 2

1 cot 2 csc 2
Even-Odd Identities:

sin( x) sin x
csc( x) csc x

Odd
tan( x) tan x

cot( x) cot x

cos( x) cos x

sec( x) sec x

Even