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What actually are sine and tangent?? A simple, circle-y explanation.
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Forget the long list of formulas—these trigonometric functions are all about circles and cyclical patterns.

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In this video, we break down what sine, cosine, and tangent really mean by looking at their relationship to the unit circle. Honestly, "trigonometry" should probably be called "circle-ometry." If you want to understand how these functions tie directly to the geometry of circles, this is the place to start.

Cosine gives you the x-coordinate of a point on the unit circle, while sine gives you the y-coordinate. Tangent? It's either the ratio of sine to cosine (y/x) or, even better, the slope of the line at that angle. Everything comes back to the geometry of circles.

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@isaaccollazo2828

2 months ago

This was exactly how my Precalc teacher in high school taught it, and I can recite the unit circle from memory because of it.

Props to you for showing off trig’s beautiful simplicity, teachers don’t do it enough.

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@dorkcreates2332

1 month ago

This is such a fun way to display their definitions, I memorized Horizontal and Vertical components for Mechanics but this makes it very intuitive Thank you

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@willcubemakes

2 months ago

Hey man! Just got a TI-Nspire CX ii and wanted to thank you for making the tutorial on plotting tables 2 years ago. Still holds up like it was made today!

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@winterturtle1596

1 week ago

My way was always building off of my memorized definition of slope. Rise over run = slope was replaced with sine over cosine = tangent. If I needed to fine the sine, that was the rise, or the y coordinate on a circle. If I wanted to get the cosine that was the run, or the x coordinate on a circle. Makes it super intuitive, and helps build on previous knowledge.

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@aNu-9017

1 month ago

You're a cool teacher

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@l.anantharaman

2 months ago

I'd have said sine cosine to be a derivative of Pythogorus theorem which immediately implies sin^2 x + cos ^2 x = 1. From my perspective , unit circle way seems to be more complicated to understand for the first timers.

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@michaelvernon9459

2 months ago

This didnt click for me until calc 2😒
I was always told to just memorize it and i cant remember shit.
Understanding>memorizin

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@anis786

2 weeks ago

And the angle in radians is the length of the arc

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@erikhicks6184

2 months ago

It's not hard to come up with an intuitive way. They are the ratios of sides of a right triangle. For example if you fix the length of the hypotenuse and vary it's angle, the sides trade off proportionally

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@LittleBananaJoe

2 months ago

Im sorry I’ll be needing a moment

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@elreturner1227

2 months ago

But isn’t sin and cosine the ratio between sides on a triangle well at least isn’t that the original definition

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@hearldfamily8287

2 months ago

Hi Mr. R it’s Allergies 🎊

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@MustovMusa

2 months ago

How about tan?

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