So I've been working very hard on my trigonometry on khan academy. However I'm constantly getting stumped by one type of question in particular.
There is some fundamental flaw in my understanding.
I know what the unit circle is completely and why sinθ=y, however, in the following question I completely DO NOT understand why the answer wasn't B and G. The answer apparently was only G!
Why Isn't the y co-ordinate of B=sinθ ?
Answer
The line segment OG is at an angle of θ from the positive x-axis, whilst the line segment OB is at an angle of θ from the negative x-axis and hence an angle of π+θ from the positive x-axis, so that the y-coordinate of B is sin(π+θ)=−sin(θ).
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