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Trigonometric

Introduction to Trigonometric

Maxima has many trigonometric functions defined. Not all trigonometric identities are programmed, but it is possible for the user to add many of them using the pattern matching capabilities of the system. The trigonometric functions defined in Maxima are: acos, acosh, acot, acoth, acsc, acsch, asec, asech, asin, asinh, atan, atanh, cos, cosh, cot, coth, csc, csch, sec, sech, sin, sinh, tan, and tanh. There are a number of commands especially for handling trigonometric functions, see trigexpand, trigreduce, and the switch trigsign. Two share packages extend the simplification rules built into Maxima, ntrig and atrig1. Do describe(command) for details.

Definitions for Trigonometric

Function: acos (x)

- Arc Cosine.

Function: acosh (x)

- Hyperbolic Arc Cosine.

Function: acot (x)

- Arc Cotangent.

Function: acoth (x)

- Hyperbolic Arc Cotangent.

Function: acsc (x)

- Arc Cosecant.

Function: acsch (x)

- Hyperbolic Arc Cosecant.

Function: asec (x)

- Arc Secant.

Function: asech (x)

- Hyperbolic Arc Secant.

Function: asin (x)

- Arc Sine.

Function: asinh (x)

- Hyperbolic Arc Sine.

Function: atan (x)

- Arc Tangent.

Function: atan2 (y, x)

- yields the value of atan(y/x) in the interval -%pi to %pi.

Function: atanh (x)

- Hyperbolic Arc Tangent.

Package: atrig1

The atrig1 package contains several additional simplification rules for inverse trigonometric functions. Together with rules already known to Maxima, the following angles are fully implemented: 0, %pi/6, %pi/4, %pi/3, and %pi/2. Corresponding angles in the other three quadrants are also available. Do load(atrig1); to use them.

Function: cos (x)

- Cosine.

Function: cosh (x)

- Hyperbolic Cosine.

Function: cot (x)

- Cotangent.

Function: coth (x)

- Hyperbolic Cotangent.

Function: csc (x)

- Cosecant.

Function: csch (x)

- Hyperbolic Cosecant.

Option variable: halfangles

Default value: false

When halfangles is true, half-angles are simplified away.

Package: ntrig

The ntrig package contains a set of simplification rules that are used to simplify trigonometric function whose arguments are of the form f(n %pi/10) where f is any of the functions sin, cos, tan, csc, sec and cot.

Function: sec (x)

- Secant.

Function: sech (x)

- Hyperbolic Secant.

Function: sin (x)

- Sine.

Function: sinh (x)

- Hyperbolic Sine.

Function: tan (x)

- Tangent.

Function: tanh (x)

- Hyperbolic Tangent.

Function: trigexpand (expr)

Expands trigonometric and hyperbolic functions of sums of angles and of multiple angles occurring in expr. For best results, expr should be expanded. To enhance user control of simplification, this function expands only one level at a time, expanding sums of angles or multiple angles. To obtain full expansion into sines and cosines immediately, set the switch trigexpand: true.

trigexpand is governed by the following global flags:

trigexpand

If true causes expansion of all expressions containing sin's and cos's occurring subsequently.

halfangles

If true causes half-angles to be simplified away.

trigexpandplus

Controls the "sum" rule for trigexpand, expansion of sums (e.g. sin(x + y)) will take place only if trigexpandplus is true.

trigexpandtimes

Controls the "product" rule for trigexpand, expansion of products (e.g. sin(2 x)) will take place only if trigexpandtimes is true.

Examples:

(%i1) x+sin(3*x)/sin(x),trigexpand=true,expand;
                         2           2
(%o1)               - sin (x) + 3 cos (x) + x
(%i2) trigexpand(sin(10*x+y));
(%o2)          cos(10 x) sin(y) + sin(10 x) cos(y)

Option variable: trigexpandplus

Default value: true

trigexpandplus controls the "sum" rule for trigexpand. Thus, when the trigexpand command is used or the trigexpand switch set to true, expansion of sums (e.g. sin(x+y)) will take place only if trigexpandplus is true.

Option variable: trigexpandtimes

Default value: true

trigexpandtimes controls the "product" rule for trigexpand. Thus, when the trigexpand command is used or the trigexpand switch set to true, expansion of products (e.g. sin(2*x)) will take place only if trigexpandtimes is true.

Option variable: triginverses

Default value: all

triginverses controls the simplification of the composition of trigonometric and hyperbolic functions with their inverse functions.

If all, both e.g. atan(tan(x)) and tan(atan(x)) simplify to x.

If true, the arcfun(fun(x)) simplification is turned off.

If false, both the arcfun(fun(x)) and fun(arcfun(x)) simplifications are turned off.

Function: trigreduce (expr, x)

Function: trigreduce (expr)

Combines products and powers of trigonometric and hyperbolic sin's and cos's of x into those of multiples of x. It also tries to eliminate these functions when they occur in denominators. If x is omitted then all variables in expr are used.

See also poissimp.

(%i1) trigreduce(-sin(x)^2+3*cos(x)^2+x);
               cos(2 x)      cos(2 x)   1        1
(%o1)          -------- + 3 (-------- + -) + x - -
                  2             2       2        2

The trigonometric simplification routines will use declared information in some simple cases. Declarations about variables are used as follows, e.g.

(%i1) declare(j, integer, e, even, o, odd)$
(%i2) sin(x + (e + 1/2)*%pi);
(%o2)                        cos(x)
(%i3) sin(x + (o + 1/2)*%pi);
(%o3)                       - cos(x)

Option variable: trigsign

Default value: true

When trigsign is true, it permits simplification of negative arguments to trigonometric functions. E.g., sin(-x) will become -sin(x) only if trigsign is true.

Function: trigsimp (expr)

Employs the identities sin(x)^2 + cos(x)^2 = 1 and cosh(x)^2 - sinh(x)^2 = 1 to simplify expressions containing tan, sec, etc., to sin, cos, sinh, cosh.

trigreduce, ratsimp, and radcan may be able to further simplify the result.

demo ("trgsmp.dem") displays some examples of trigsimp.

Function: trigrat (expr)

Gives a canonical simplifyed quasilinear form of a trigonometrical expression; expr is a rational fraction of several sin, cos or tan, the arguments of them are linear forms in some variables (or kernels) and %pi/n (n integer) with integer coefficients. The result is a simplified fraction with numerator and denominator linear in sin and cos. Thus trigrat linearize always when it is possible.

(%i1) trigrat(sin(3*a)/sin(a+%pi/3));
(%o1)            sqrt(3) sin(2 a) + cos(2 a) - 1

The following example is taken from Davenport, Siret, and Tournier, Calcul Formel, Masson (or in English, Addison-Wesley), section 1.5.5, Morley theorem.

(%i1) c: %pi/3 - a - b;
                                    %pi
(%o1)                     - b - a + ---
                                     3
(%i2) bc: sin(a)*sin(3*c)/sin(a+b);
                      sin(a) sin(3 b + 3 a)
(%o2)                 ---------------------
                           sin(b + a)
(%i3) ba: bc, c=a, a=c$
(%i4) ac2: ba^2 + bc^2 - 2*bc*ba*cos(b);
         2       2
      sin (a) sin (3 b + 3 a)
(%o4) -----------------------
               2
            sin (b + a)

                                        %pi
   2 sin(a) sin(3 a) cos(b) sin(b + a - ---) sin(3 b + 3 a)
                                         3
 - --------------------------------------------------------
                           %pi
                   sin(a - ---) sin(b + a)
                            3

      2         2         %pi
   sin (3 a) sin (b + a - ---)
                           3
 + ---------------------------
             2     %pi
          sin (a - ---)
                    3
(%i5) trigrat (ac2);
(%o5) - (sqrt(3) sin(4 b + 4 a) - cos(4 b + 4 a)

 - 2 sqrt(3) sin(4 b + 2 a) + 2 cos(4 b + 2 a)

 - 2 sqrt(3) sin(2 b + 4 a) + 2 cos(2 b + 4 a)

 + 4 sqrt(3) sin(2 b + 2 a) - 8 cos(2 b + 2 a) - 4 cos(2 b - 2 a)

 + sqrt(3) sin(4 b) - cos(4 b) - 2 sqrt(3) sin(2 b) + 10 cos(2 b)

 + sqrt(3) sin(4 a) - cos(4 a) - 2 sqrt(3) sin(2 a) + 10 cos(2 a)

 - 9)/4

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