Sunday, 27 November 2016

trigonometry - Can Asin2t+Bsintcost+Csint+Dcost+E=0 be solved algebraically?



This started out much more complex, but I've reduced an equation to this (it's for finding intersections of ellipses):



Asin2(t)+Bsin(t)cos(t)+Csin(t)+Dcos(t)+E=0




I want to solve for t where A/B/C/D/E are constants. Is this solvable algebraically, or is only numeric approximation possible?



Using trig identities and the formula for phase shifting, I can further simplify it down to this form:



sin(2t+F)+Gsin(t+H)=I



Where F/G/H/I are constants. The formula is much simpler, but this may be a dead end, because now we have two angles to deal with.


Answer



yes use sin(t)=2tan(t/2)1+(tan(t/2))2
cos(t)=1(tan(t/2))21+(tan(t/2))2
and after this you can substitute tan(t/2)=z


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