 | Edward Albert Bowser - Trigonometry - 1892 - 202 pages
...definitions : The sine of an angle is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse; or sin A = -• с The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse ; orcosA = -- с The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Trigonometry - 1892 - 392 pages
...definitions : The sine of an angle is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse; or sin A = -• с The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse ; orcosA = -- с The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent... | |
 | Ephraim Miller - Plane trigonometry - 1894 - 222 pages
...3. The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent side. 4. The cotangent of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the opposite side. 5. The secant of an angle is the ratio of the hypothenuse to the adjacent side. 6. The... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 390 pages
...hypothenuse. The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent side. The cotangent of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the opposite side. The secant of an angle is the ratio of the hypothenuse to the adjacent side. The cosecant... | |
 | Edward Ellsworth Holton - Machine-shop practice - 1910 - 244 pages
...angle is the ratio of the side opposite the angle to the hypotenuse, as sin A = — , sin B = — . cc The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse, as cos A = —, cos B = — . CC The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the side opposite... | |
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - Artillery, Field and mountain - 1912 - 352 pages
...is its complementary sine, or the sine of its complements; thus the cosine of O is the sine of dab. The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse or the cosine of O is —. The tangent of an angle is the 00 ratio of the opposite to the... | |
 | Fred Anzley Annett - Electric machinery - 1921 - 456 pages
...sines of angles between zero and 90 dcg. vary from zero to unity; these values are given in Table II. The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse ; thus the cosine of an angle 0 = 7:7;. When angle <S, is zero, OB coincides OB with and... | |
 | Chester Laurens Dawes - Electric engineering - 1925 - 502 pages
...the adjacent side, an inspection of Fig. 58 (6) shows that, IXc Xc 1 /ofi\ ~ ~IR ~ "It = (2S) Since the cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse, cos 6 = , _ {g ___ = = . R = |. (29) In all the foregoing formulas, C must be expressed... | |
 | Edward Ellsworth Holton - Machine-shop practice - 1928 - 248 pages
...angle is the ratio of the side opposite the angle to the hypotenuse, as sin A = — , sin B = — . cc The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to ba the hypotenuse, as cos A = — , cos B= — . CC The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the side... | |
 | Jonathan Spaihts, Princeton Review (Firm) - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 450 pages
...the opposite side to the hypotenuse. The sine function of an angle 6 is abbreviated: sin 6 . COSINE The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. The cosine function of an angle 6 is abbreviated: cos 9 . TANGENT The tangent of an angle... | |
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