# [SOLVED] Help simplify this hyperbolic trig function

• Feb 22nd 2010, 10:46 PM
downthesun01
[SOLVED] Help simplify this hyperbolic trig function
This should be really easy, but I'm not getting it for whatever reason

$\sqrt{sinh^2(t) - cosh^2(t) + 1^2}$

The answer should be $\sqrt{2}cosh(t)$ But I don't understand how. There must be some simple identity that I'm missing.
• Feb 22nd 2010, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by downthesun01
This should be really easy, but I'm not getting it for whatever reason

$\sqrt{sinh^2(t) - cosh^2(t) + 1^2}$

The answer should be $\sqrt{2}cosh(t)$ But I don't understand how. There must be some simple identity that I'm missing.

Remember that $\cosh^2{t} - \sinh^2{t} = 1$...
• Feb 22nd 2010, 11:26 PM
downthesun01
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Originally Posted by Prove It
Remember that $\cosh^2{t} - \sinh^2{t} = 1$...

Yeah, I realize that but you're going to have to dumb down your point a bit for me haha.. :(
• Feb 22nd 2010, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by downthesun01
Yeah, I realize that but you're giving to have to dumb down your point a bit for me haha.. :(

This means $\sinh^2{t} = \cosh^2{t} - 1$.

Substitute it in and simplify...

Upon further inspection, in order to obtain the answer of $\sqrt{2}\cosh{t}$, the original expression needs to be $\sqrt{\sinh^2{t} \color{red}+\color{black}\cosh^2{t} + 1^2}$
• Feb 22nd 2010, 11:36 PM
downthesun01
I figured out the problem. The original expression is
$\sqrt{sinh^2(t) + (-cosh(t))^2 + 1^2}$

Which is the same as $\sqrt{sinh^2(t) + cosh^2(t) + 1^2}$
So,
$\sqrt{2cosh^2(t)}$
$
\sqrt{2}cosh(t)$