Showing posts with label Asymptotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asymptotes. Show all posts

Friday, September 18, 2009

Trig Equations






Today, we learned more about solving trig equations. We learned that you can graph the trig equations either on a unit circle, or on a grid. A good applet to show this is linked here. http://ronblond.com/M12/Trig.Solve.APPLET/index.html . Another program you can use for graphing is called Graphmatica. You may notice that for the graph of y=tan(x), the lines are not connected. The spaces in between the lines are called the asymptotes. Where the asymptotes are, the tangent ratio is 1/0 which has no solution, leading to no graph on that value. I am very confused by most of this stuff still. The assignment for Monday is to finish the angle measurement chart.