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IB HL - Trigonometry
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The right-angled triangle
  • Pythagoras' theorem.
  • SOHCAHTOA and applications.
  • Using angles of elevation and depression.
  • Using 3 figure bearings.
 
The non-right angled triangle
  • Finding 2 solutions of angles between 0 and 360 degrees.
  • Drawing cosine, sine, and tangent graphs.
  • The sine rule.
  • The cosine rule.
  • The area of a non-right angled triangle.
 
Radian measure
  • Conversion between degree and radian measure.
  • Graphing sine, cosine, tangent curves with radian measure.
  • Finding sector areas and arc lengths using radian measure.
 
The unit circle
  • Defining cosine, sine and tangent by using the unit circle.
  • Defining cosec, sec, and cot by using the unit circle.
  • Derive and use the Pythagorean identities.
 
Circular functions
  • Further graphing of sine, cosine, and tangent curves.
  • Transformation of trig curves; using amplitude, period, domain and range.
  • Solving wave function applications, such as sunlight hours, using trig curves.
  • The inverse functions and graphs (arcsine, arccos, arctan), their domain and range.
 
Trig solution in finite intervals
  • Solving trig functions by use of algebra.
  • Solving trig functions by use of a graph on a GDC.
 
Trig identities
  • Derive and proof of the compound angle identities.
  • Derive and proof of the double angle identities.
  • Using trig identities to solve problems.