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#1 2014-09-24 03:04:01
Trigonometric Equations
Solve for x in
tan x + 2 tan x + sqrt(3) tan x tan 2x = sqrt(3)
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#2 2014-09-24 03:57:55
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Re: Trigonometric Equations
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#3 2014-09-24 05:22:14
Re: Trigonometric Equations
Thanks 
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#4 2014-09-24 05:29:30
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Re: Trigonometric Equations
Have you solved that cubic and plugged in?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#5 2014-09-24 05:32:11
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I will do it later. I am busy now.
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#6 2014-10-05 12:51:01
Re: Trigonometric Equations
Solve
sin(x) + cos(x) - (sin (x))^2 = 0
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#7 2014-10-05 19:33:21
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Re: Trigonometric Equations
By graphing, it looks like pi/2 is the one solution in the range 0 - 2pi. There's another that I'm tracking down now. Also working on an algebraic solution now .....
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#8 2014-10-05 19:40:43
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#9 2014-10-05 20:05:52
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Re: Trigonometric Equations
I've got 5.7083590101....
Still thinking about how to get there without trial.
Bob
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#10 2014-10-05 21:38:20
Re: Trigonometric Equations
I can give a couple of complex solutions as well.
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#11 2014-10-06 04:05:56
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Re: Trigonometric Equations
hi,
I scribbled this out on the back of a bus ticket. It just confirms what I said earlier.
Now square both sides and you get a quartic. We can factor out the easy solution (sin(x) -1)= 0 and you're left with a cubic.
No easy factors.
Differentiating shows it has no turning points, and it goes through (0,1), so that confirms the negative solution as the only other in one [0,2pi] cycle.
As I already know it's not an simple value I think you've got to number crunch this solution.
And then, as you say, two complex solutions ... which would have to be checked against the original as squaring was involved in case they're actually solutions to
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#12 2014-10-13 02:34:34
Re: Trigonometric Equations
Solve: cos(x) - sin(3x) = cos(2x)
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#13 2014-10-13 03:12:35
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#14 2014-10-13 03:38:49
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Oh thanks!
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