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Ch. 1 - Functions
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Capitolo 1, Problema 1.3.38

What happens if you take B = 2π in the addition formulas? Do the results agree with something you already know?

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Consider the addition formulas for sine and cosine: \( \sin(A + B) = \sin A \cos B + \cos A \sin B \) and \( \cos(A + B) = \cos A \cos B - \sin A \sin B \).
Substitute \( B = 2\pi \) into these formulas. Recall that \( \cos(2\pi) = 1 \) and \( \sin(2\pi) = 0 \).
For the sine addition formula, substitute \( B = 2\pi \): \( \sin(A + 2\pi) = \sin A \cdot 1 + \cos A \cdot 0 = \sin A \).
For the cosine addition formula, substitute \( B = 2\pi \): \( \cos(A + 2\pi) = \cos A \cdot 1 - \sin A \cdot 0 = \cos A \).
These results show that \( \sin(A + 2\pi) = \sin A \) and \( \cos(A + 2\pi) = \cos A \), which agree with the periodicity of sine and cosine functions, confirming that they repeat every \( 2\pi \).

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