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Help me win a bet against a teacher
« on: May 21, 2009, 03:10:06 pm »
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As My Specialist teacher was setting us today's homework, he told us to do all of Q1 except i) because it's really really hard.
It was a very unproductive lesson for me today because I spent the majority of it trying to figure it out.


The question is:



I tried turning it into over and then turned the into and then cancelling out one of the ...
but got stuck.

The teacher gave me a hint and said the reason it was hard is because: "You have to think about changing quadrants"?? I think... ???

Please help  :)
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Re: Help me win a bet against a teacher
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2009, 04:16:31 pm »
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Re: Help me win a bet against a teacher
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2009, 09:45:23 pm »
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remember that

the relationship between cot/csc in many respects resembles tan/sec

What is "csc"?
Is it just cosec?

And if so would you make that one on sin...?
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Re: Help me win a bet against a teacher
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2009, 09:48:02 pm »
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the integral of cosec^2(x) = -cot(x)
csc is cosec

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Re: Help me win a bet against a teacher
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2009, 09:53:42 pm »
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Oh really?  ???

Is there some sort of possibility that you or someone could prove it?  :)
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Re: Help me win a bet against a teacher
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2009, 09:55:49 pm »
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Re: Help me win a bet against a teacher
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2009, 10:18:41 pm »
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I think maybe he means how do you show it in terms of breaking it up further to something more recognisable like this:


                         
                         

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Re: Help me win a bet against a teacher
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2009, 11:16:48 pm »
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Sweet, thanks guys.
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