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Please put answers for sin, cos, tan, cot, sec, and csc

Please put answers for sin, cos, tan, cot, sec, and csc-example-1

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If we measure the angle in the clockwise direction:

Therefore, this point is:


(-1,0)

Since the cosine and sine functions are given by:


\begin{gathered} \sin (\theta)=\frac{opposite}{_{\text{ }}hypotenuse} \\ \cos (\theta)=\frac{adjacent}{_{\text{ }}hypotenuse} \end{gathered}

Therefore:


\begin{gathered} \sin (-\pi)=(0)/(1)=0 \\ \cos (-\pi)=(1)/(-1)=-1 \end{gathered}

Since:


\begin{gathered} \cot (\theta)=\frac{adjacent}{_{\text{ }}opposite}\to\cot (-\pi)=-(1)/(0)=_{\text{ }}undefined \\ \csc (\theta)=\frac{hypotenuse}{_{\text{ }}opposite}\to\csc (-\pi)=(1)/(0)=_{\text{ }}undefined \end{gathered}

Therefore, we can conclude that cotangent and cosecant are undefined for - π


\begin{gathered} \tan (\theta)=\frac{opposite}{_{\text{ }}adjacent}=(0)/(-1)=0 \\ \sec (\theta)=\frac{hypotenuse}{_{\text{ }}adjacent}=(1)/(-1)=-1 \end{gathered}

Please put answers for sin, cos, tan, cot, sec, and csc-example-1
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