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We're doing volumes of rotated functions. I've got most of them done, but I just have to solve for x in this equation, and NO identities are coming to mind... and I can't find any that apply in my lists or on the internet. Can anybody see a way to solve for x here? (Algebraically, not graphically...)
Code:9 cos(x)
-- = -------
16 sin(2x)
NO identities are coming to mind? You can't find an identity for sin(2x)?
Wow I'm stupid... It's been 3 years since my last math class.
dude I hear you. I took prob and stat last semester after roughly 2 or three years of not taking any math courses and felt like an idiot because I couldn't do integrals or basic stuff. I remembered quickly with the power of google and the like.
sin(2x) = 2*sin(x)*cos(x)
9/16 = cos(x) / (2 * sin(x) * cos(x))
9/8 = 1/sin(x)
sin(x) = 8/9
x = arcsin(8/9)
Don't worry about it man, once you get back into the swing of things *pushes up glasses...pockets calculator* this math stuff will be nothing but a reflex for ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by sean
It's worse when they give you something like:
x + sin( x ) = 0.3
or something. Can't solve it analytically and it drives me mad!
When you have to integrate sin(x)^8 dx is when I go SCREW YOU
-X / 2 dXQuote:
Originally Posted by sean
they should have covered the relation between sine and coine as derivatives of each other.
Yes, sine and cosine have a relationship as derivatives, but when one is a function of x and the other is a function of 2x, it's a more complex relationship. The way to simplify it was to use sin(2x) = 2sin(x)cos(x), and therefore the whole expression simplifies to 1/2sin(x).