GRAPHS of TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS CHAPTER TABLE of CONTENTS Music Is an Integral Part of the Lives of Most Peo- 11-1 Graph of the Sine Function Ple
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CHAPTER 11 GRAPHS OF TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS CHAPTER TABLE OF CONTENTS Music is an integral part of the lives of most peo- 11-1 Graph of the Sine Function ple. Although the kind of music they prefer will differ, 11-2 Graph of the Cosine Function all music is the effect of sound waves on the ear.Sound 11-3 Amplitude, Period, and Phase waves carry the energy of a vibrating string or column Shift of air to our ears. No matter what vibrating object is 11-4 Writing the Equation of a causing the sound wave, the frequency of the wave Sine or Cosine Graph (that is, the number of waves per second) creates a 11-5 Graph of the Tangent sensation that we call the pitch of the sound.A sound Function wave with a high frequency produces a high pitch while 11-6 Graphs of the Reciprocal a sound wave with a lower frequency produces a lower Functions pitch.When the frequencies of two sounds are in the 11-7 Graphs of Inverse ratio of 2 : 1, the sounds differ by an octave and pro- Trigonometric Functions duce a pleasing combination. In general, music is the 11-8 Sketching Trigonometric result of the mixture of sounds that are mathematically Graphs related by whole-number ratios of their frequencies. Chapter Summary Sound is just one of many physical entities that are Vocabulary transmitted by waves. Light, radio, television, X-rays, Review Exercises and microwaves are others. The trigonometric func- Cumulative Review tions that we will study in this chapter provide the mathematical basis for the study of waves.
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11-1 GRAPH OF THE SINE FUNCTION The sine function is a set of ordered pairs of real numbers. Each ordered pair can be represented as a point of the coordinate plane. The domain of the sine function is the set of real numbers, that is, every real number is a first element of one pair of the function. To sketch the graph of the sine function, we will plot a portion of the graph using the subset of the real numbers in the interval 0 x 2p. We know that p 1 sin 6 552 0.5 p and that 6 is the measure of the reference angle for angles with measures of 5p 7p 11p 6 ,6 ,6 , . . . . We also know that p 3 sin 3 55!2 0.866025 . . . p and that 3 is the measure of the reference angle for angles with measures of 2p 4p 5p p 3 ,3 ,3 , . . . . We can round the rational approximation of sin 3 to two decimal places, 0.87.
p p p 2p 5p 7p 4p 3p 5p 11p x 0 6 3 2 3 6 p 6 3 2 3 6 2p sin x 0 0.5 0.87 1 0.87 0.5 0 20.5 20.87 21 20.87 20.5 0
y 1
O p p p 2p 5p p 7p 4p 3p 5p 11p 2p x 6 3 2 3 6 6 3 2 3 6
–1 y = sin x
On the graph, we plot the points whose coordinates are given in the table. Through these points, we draw a smooth curve. Note how x and y change. p • As x increases from 0 to 2 , y increases from 0 to 1. p • As x increases from 2 to p, y decreases from 1 to 0. 3p • As x increases from p to 2 , y continues to decrease from 0 to 21. 3p • As x increases from 2 to 2p, y increases from 21 to 0. 14411C11.pgs 8/12/08 1:54 PM Page 436
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When we plot a larger subset of the domain of the sine function, this pat- tern is repeated. For example, add to the points given above the point whose x-coordinates are in the interval 22p x 0.
11p 5p 3p 4p 7p 5p 2p p p p x 22p26 23 22 23 26 2p26 23 22 23 26 0 sin x 0 0.5 0.87 1 0.87 0.5 0 20.5 20.87 21 20.87 20.5 0
y 1 y 5 sin x x 22p 3p 2p p O p p 3p 2p 2 2 22 2 2 21
Each time we increase or decrease the value of the x-coordinates by a mul- tiple of 2p, the basic sine curve is repeated. Each portion of the graph in an interval of 2p is one cycle of the sine function. The graph of the function y 5 sin x is its own image under the translation
T2p,0. The function y 5 sin x is called a periodic function with a period of 2p because for every x in the domain of the sine function, sin x 5 sin (x 1 2p).
y 1 y = sin x
p x 22p 23p 2p 2p O p 3p 2p 5p 3p 7p 2 2 1 2 2 2 2