Textbook: Larson R 2014. Trigonometry, Ninth Edition 9e, Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, ISBN-13: 978-1-133-95433-0
Objectives:
Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for an unknown side of a right triangle.
A good description of the Pythagorean Theorem along with multiple application problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8EA5TxGzcY
Objectives:
Recite and use side-length relationships for 45-45-90 and 30-60-90 triangles
Solving 45-45-90 and 30-60-90 triangles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qs4cgxbgs
Objectives:
Define and evaluate the six trigonometric functions of acute angles on right triangles given side lengths
Use a calculator to evaluate trigonometric functions given acute angles in degrees
Find side lengths of a triangle
Solve a triangle
Finding all six trigonometric functions of acute angles given sides on the right triangle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T8GTY4_gzo
Finding trigonometric functions using a calculator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fBQM8YC-Q
How to solve a right triangle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5WQlcFTXyk
Objectives:
Apply skills of solving a triangle
Apply skills involving bearings, headings, angles of elevation, and angles of depression
This video provides example problems involving trigonometric functions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKvSe6Ltgs
Objectives:
Sketch an angle in standard position
Identify positive and negative angles
Measure an angle in degrees
Identify the quadrant of an angle
Define and identify acute, obtuse, right, straight, and reflex angles
Identify if two angles are complementary or supplementary
Find the complement or supplement of an angle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iBc5bJdanI
Objectives:
Convert between decimal degrees and DMS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbN93Q82IB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtgAAy-XvCQ
Objectives:
Define a radian
Convert between degrees and radians
Convert between degrees or radians and revolutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJqXtzwpXQ
Objectives:
Identify if two angles are coterminal
Given an angle, calculate a coterminal angle that is more positive or more negative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtk1PVRoDLQ
Objectives:
Convert between arc length, angles, and radii
Convert between linear and angular speeds
Convert between angles, radii, and sector area
Good quick explanations of finding arc length, linear and angular speeds, and sector areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtlRcI2d9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNT4WPLf2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Co_nx7gUg
Objectives:
Draw and label the unit circle, labeling angles every 45 degrees and 30 degrees
Label angles every (pi/4) and (pi/6) radians on the unit circle
Define a reference angle
Find a reference angle given any angle
Define the six trigonometric functions on the unit circle
Calculate the six trigonometric functions on the special angles
These are two important videos that help to extend the concept of trigonometric functions from the triangle to the circle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2nJEbap80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdksdjuSCk
Good video on the use of reference angles to find trigonometric functions using reference angles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8LEHEzdU2U
These videos do the best job of defining reference angles and showing how to figure out the unit circle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN7wFrebwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHa8f7k4Tg8
This last video does the best job of compiling the unit circle. Watch this as you are assembling your unit circle on your own paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYHbhaGVI0U
Objectives:
Evaluate all six trig functions of any angle on the unit circle using a calculator given degrees or radians
This video shows how to find trigonometric functions of acute angles using the calculator. The procedure is identical for angles not between zero and 90 degrees. for To do the same with radians, convert to degrees or place your calculator in "radian" mode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fBQM8YC-Q
Objectives:
Evaluate all other trig functions given a single trig function and a quadrant
Calculate trigonometric functions from a point on the terminal side.
Evaluate trigonometric functions given the equation of a line through the origin
Good, quick video on how to find all trig functions, given a single trig function plus a constraint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftV2e2APCRA
Good discussion on calculating trigonometric functions from a point on the terminal side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HVE6rP5FQQ
Similarly solid discussion, here describing the calculation of trig functions from the equation of a line through the origin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPw4BnoXHSc
Objectives:
Define the domain of various trig functions
Define a periodic function
Define the period of sine and cosine
Evaluate sine and cosine functions using the period as an aide
Good discussion of the domain of sine and cosine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ5t9wK42l8
Good discussion of the period of sine and cosine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZLeN_9jjGg
Objectives:
Identify which trig functions are even or odd
Use the even and odd properties to help evaluate trig functions
This video gives a good introduction to even and odd trigonometric functions, and using the evenness and oddness of a function as an aid in evaluating their values.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8hokJ3Cqo
Objectives:
Recite reciprocal, quotient, and Pythagorean identities
Use reciprocal, quotient, and Pythagorean identities
Great, funny video that introduces all the fundamental trigonometric identities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z5V0Kf7vDg
This video reinforces the fundamental trigonometric identities and introduces the process of proving an identity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpOM17HhAA
This video gives additional practice for proving identities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnY1-UT-JyE
Objectives:
Graph elementary sine and cosine curves
Graph sine and cosine curves with arbitrary amplitudes
Graph sine and cosine curves with arbitrary frequencies/periods
Graph sine and cosine curves with arbitrary phase shifts
Graph sine and cosine curves with arbitrary amplitudes, frequencies, and phase shifts
Graph sine and cosine curves with horizontal translations
Graph sine and cosine curves with vertical translations
Write a trigonometric equation given an amplitude, phase shift, and vertical translation
Find a trigonometric model to represent a graph
Good discussion of graphing sine and cosine functions, with all their possible transformations. This instructor uses `h` and `k` for his horizontal and vertical offsets. In class we use different letters for these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ktjhKRdng
Objectives:
Graph a tangent function
Graph a tangent function with arbitrary amplitude and frequency
Graph a cotangent function
Graph a cotangent function with arbitrary amplitude and frequency
Graph a reciprocal function
Graph a reciprocal function with arbitrary amplitude, frequency, and phase shift
Graph damped sine waves
Determine the domain, range, and period of all trig functions
Good explanation of the graph of the tangent function.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6-tZ5D7xM
This video expands the previous video to include the tangent function with a phase shift and a different period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cvWRFT7iWM
This video provides a good review of previous functions, but then extends these to the graphing of secant, cosecant, and cotangent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nr5KCitdGw
Objectives:
Define the inverse sine, cosine, and tangent function
Evaluate an inverse sine, cosine, and tangent function for a seminal angle
Evaluate an inverse sine, cosine, and tangent function using a calculator
Graph an inverse sine, cosine, and tangent function
Describe the domain and range of inverse sine, cosine, and tangent functions
Evaluate compositions of inverse trig functions
Evaluate compositions of non-inverse trig functions
Write an equivalent algebraic expression for a composition of trig functions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXWKpgmLgHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHN2k9wmAs&list=PL0G-Nd0V5ZMo1g53_xKoo_u_Lt2B9POh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQeqXmD_Fho
Objectives:
Apply skills involving simple harmonic motion
Very comprehensive discussion on the application of trig functions to oscillatory motion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkcCFhbjVk
The learners will
Evaluate trigonometric functions
Simplify trigonometric equations
Develop additional trigonometric identities
Solve trigonometric equations
These videos are great sources of more practice for working with trig identities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlM76clMlD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YSI8fm4gRQ
Objectives:
The learners will use a variety of techniques to verify trigonometric identities.
Good comprehensive description of the full set of strategies in verifying a trigonometric identity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf05H8ogHLg
Objectives:
The students will solve trigonometric equations by --
collecting like terms,
extracting square roots,
factoring,
using techniques of quadratic equations,
rewriting trigonometric equations so that only one trig function is used,
squaring both sides and treating it as a quadratic equation, and
using inverse functions
Students will also solve trigonometric equations involving multiples or fractions of an angle
These two videos give a good introduction into solving trigonometric equations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp8MJEWClkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKrGXVBuniw
Objectives:
Students will use trigonometric sum and difference identities to:
simplify trigonometric expressions
evaluate trigonometric functions
Good introduction to the use of the sum and difference identities for sine, cosine, and tangent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liSgx_72bfg
Objectives:
Students will use double and half-angle formulas to assist in simplifying trigonometric expressions, evaluating trigonometric functions, and solving trigonometric equations.
Good (and funny) demonstration of the double-angle formulas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcy6JVICWc8
Same for the half-angle formulas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZvNrdd7U4
Good, quick explanation of how to use the power-reduction formulas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bP1FuASneY
Objectives:
Use sum-to-product and product-to-sum identities to simplify trigonometric expressions
Good description of how to use the product-to-sum and sum-to-product identities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUh2B9hnI_U
Objectives:
The students will:
Use the Law of Sines to solve non-right triangles
Use the Law of Sines to solve real-world problems
Find the area of any triangle
Good comprehensive discussion on the use of the Law of Sines to solve triangles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fS0uA4iLxI
Objectives:
The students will
Use the Law of Cosines to solve non-right triangles
Use the Law of Cosines to solve real-world problems
Find areas of triangles using Heron's Area Formula
An example of using the Law of Cosines when given a triangle with two sides known as well as the included angle in between them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElOxG7_m3c
This example uses the Law of Cosines to find one of the angles in a triangle where all three sides are known.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckyFhQLrq8U
Good discussion of how to find the area of a triangle using Heron's Formula.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi56pFy-8HU
Objectives:
The learners will:
Represent vectors as directed line segments
Write the component forms of vectors
Perform basic vector operations and represent them graphically
Write vectors as linear combinations of unit vectors
Find the direction angles of vectors
Use vectors to model and solve real-life problems
Good discussion of vectors and components.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXdMpXMuEGI
Good discussion of unit vectors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCkhbKFZgLk
Good discussion of how to calculate the direction angle of a vector.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Eur16foTMw
This section is a review of concepts described in section 2.4 in the following course:
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This section is a review of concepts described in section 2.5 in the following course:
https://www.determinedparents.com/home/mat1340
Objectives:
The students will be able to:
Find the absolute value (or magnitude) of a complex number
Convert a complex number from standard form to its trigonometric form and back again
Multiply and divide complex numbers, and understand what happens rotationally in the complex plane when we do this
Good description of how to convert to and from the trigonometric form of a complex number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9NMWDUhUQ
Good description of how to multiply and divide complex numbers in trigonometric form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhI8H7hJ7pQ