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  2. Law of cosines - Wikipedia

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    Fig. 1 – A triangle. The angles α (or A), β (or B), and γ (or C) are respectively opposite the sides a, b, and c.. In trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles.

  3. Special right triangle - Wikipedia

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    Set square shaped as 45° - 45° - 90° triangle The side lengths of a 45° - 45° - 90° triangle 45° - 45° - 90° right triangle of hypotenuse length 1.. In plane geometry, dividing a square along its diagonal results in two isosceles right triangles, each with one right angle (90°, ⁠ π / 2 ⁠ radians) and two other congruent angles each measuring half of a right angle (45°, or ...

  4. Rotation matrix - Wikipedia

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    A 180° rotation (middle) followed by a positive 90° rotation (left) is equivalent to a single negative 90° (positive 270°) rotation (right). Each of these figures depicts the result of a rotation relative to an upright starting position (bottom left) and includes the matrix representation of the permutation applied by the rotation (center ...

  5. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    Mathematically, an ellipse can be represented by the formula: r = p 1 + ε cos ⁡ θ , {\displaystyle r={\frac {p}{1+\varepsilon \,\cos \theta }},} where p {\displaystyle p} is the semi-latus rectum , ε is the eccentricity of the ellipse, r is the distance from the Sun to the planet, and θ is the angle to the planet's current position from ...

  6. Proofs of trigonometric identities - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the sum formula. Draw a horizontal line (the x -axis); mark an origin O. Draw a line from O at an angle α {\displaystyle \alpha } above the horizontal line and a second line at an angle β {\displaystyle \beta } above that; the angle between the second line and the x -axis is α + β {\displaystyle \alpha +\beta } .

  7. Spherical trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    The triangle A'B'C' is the polar triangle corresponding to triangle ABC. A very important theorem (Todhunter, [1] Art.27) proves that the angles and sides of the polar triangle are given by ′ =, ′ =, ′ =, ′ =, ′ =, ′ =. Therefore, if any identity is proved for ABC then we can immediately derive a second identity by applying the ...

  8. Pompeiu's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Pompeiu's theorem is a result of plane geometry, discovered by the Romanian mathematician Dimitrie Pompeiu. The theorem is simple, but not classical. It states the following: Given an equilateral triangle ABC in the plane, and a point P in the plane of the triangle ABC, the lengths PA, PB, and PC form the sides of a (maybe, degenerate) triangle ...

  9. Turn (angle) - Wikipedia

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    The binary degree, also known as the binary radian (or brad), is ⁠ 1 / 256 ⁠ turn. [21] The binary degree is used in computing so that an angle can be represented to the maximum possible precision in a single byte. Other measures of angle used in computing may be based on dividing one whole turn into 2 n equal parts for other values of n. [22]