Sunday, 27 July 2014

trigonometry - What is the exact value of sin 1 + sin 3 + sin 5 ... sin 177 + sin179 (in degrees)?

My attempt:



First I converted this expression to sum notation:



sin(1)+sin(3)+sin(5)+...+sin(175)+sin(177)+sin(179) = 90n=1sin(2n1)




Next, I attempted to use Euler's formula for the sum, since I needed this huge expression to be simplified in exponential form:



90n=1sin(2n1) = Im(90n=1cis(2n1))



Im(90n=1cis(2n1)) = Im(90n=1ei(2n1))



Im(90n=1ei(2n1)) = Im(ei+e3i+e5i+...+e175i+e177i+e179i)



Next, I used the sum of the finite geometric series formula on this expression:




Im(ei+e3i+e5i+...+e175i+e177i+e179i) = Im(ei(1e180i)1e2i)



Im(ei(1e180i)1e2i) = Im(2ei1e2i)



Now I'm stuck in here;

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