cyclometric functions
The trigonometric functions (http://planetmath.org/DefinitionsInTrigonometry) are periodic, and thus get all their values infinitely many times. Therefore their inverse functions, the cyclometric functions, are multivalued, but the values within suitable chosen intervals are unique; they form single-valued functions, called the branches of the multivalued functions.
The of the most used cyclometric functions are as follows:
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is the angle satisfying and (defined for )
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is the angle satisfying and (defined for )
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is the angle satisfying and (defined in the whole )
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is the angle satisfying and (defined in the whole )
Those functions are denoted also , , and . We here use these notations temporarily for giving the corresponding multivalued functions ():
Some formulae
The classic abbreviations of the cyclometric functions are usually explained as follows. The values of the trigonometric functions are got from the unit circle by means of its arc (in Latin arcus) with starting point (1, 0). The arc the angle (which may be thought as a central angle of the circle), and its end point is achieved when the starting point has circulated along the circumference anticlockwise for positive angle (and clockwise for negative angle). Then the cosine of the arc (i.e. angle) is the abscissa of the end point, the sine of the arc is the ordinate of it. Correspondingly, one can get the tangent and cotangent of the arc by using certain points on the tangent lines and of the unit circle.
The word cosine is in Latin cosinus, its genitive form is cosini. So e.g. “” of a given real number means the ‘arc of the cosine value ’, in Latin arcus cosini x.
Title | cyclometric functions |
Canonical name | CyclometricFunctions |
Date of creation | 2013-03-22 14:36:00 |
Last modified on | 2013-03-22 14:36:00 |
Owner | pahio (2872) |
Last modified by | pahio (2872) |
Numerical id | 34 |
Author | pahio (2872) |
Entry type | Definition |
Classification | msc 26A09 |
Synonym | arc functions |
Synonym | arcus functions |
Synonym | inverse trigonometric functions |
Related topic | Trigonometry |
Related topic | ComplexSineAndCosine |
Related topic | TaylorSeriesOfArcusSine |
Related topic | TaylorSeriesOfArcusTangent |
Related topic | AreaFunctions |
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Related topic | OstensiblyDiscontinuousAntiderivative |
Related topic | I |
Defines | branch |
Defines | principal branch |
Defines | sine |
Defines | cosine |
Defines | arc sine |
Defines | arc cosine |
Defines | arc tangent |
Defines | arc cotangent |
Defines | inverse sine |
Defines | inverse tangent |