Trig Identities

**casey_k** · January 24th 2009, 01:37 PM

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**Jhevon** · January 24th 2009, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by casey_k

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apply these identities to the left hand side:

$\cot x = \frac {\cos x}{\sin x}$
$1 - \sin^2 x = \cos^2 x$

then apply these to the right:

$\tan x = \frac {\sin x}{\cos x}$
$1 - \cos^2 x = \sin^2 x$

**Danny** · January 24th 2009, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by casey_k

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$\frac{ \cot x}{1 - \sin ^2 x} { ? = } \frac{ \tan x}{1 - \cos ^2 x}$

$\frac{ \cot x}{ \cos ^2 x} { ? = } \frac{ \tan x}{\sin ^2 x}$

$\frac{1}{\tan x} \frac{ 1}{ \cos ^2 x} { ? = } \frac{ \tan x}{\sin ^2 x}$

where $? =$ is a question - is this true. Do you see it from here?

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