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Every Angle for a Tangent

Part of the Angles and the Unit Circle section of Coddy's Trigonometry journey. Lesson 43 of 55.

Because tangent repeats every half turn, its angles come in pairs half a turn apart. To list them over an interval, find the first one and keep adding π (or 180°).

Take tan⁡(θ)=1\tan\left(\theta\right) = 1 on [0, 4π). The first angle is π/4. Adding π again and again gives 5π/4, 9π/4 and 13π/4, and the next, 17π/4, is past 4π. Four angles over two turns: two per turn, as with sine and cosine, but evenly spaced.

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Challenge

The circle is labelled in radians. Tap every angle from 0 up to 4π4\pi with tan⁡(θ)=−3\tan\left(\theta\right) = -\sqrt{3}. The Turn buttons above the circle switch to the second turn. Then press Check.

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