The sides of right-angled triangles are labelled opposite, hypotenuse and adjacent. Trigonometry explores the relationship between sides and angles in right-angled triangles. The hypotenuse is the ...

a missing side in a right-angled triangle when another side and an angle are known. a missing angle in a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. In these formulae, the Greek letter θ (theta) ...

Most trigonometry students look at triangles on a flat surface. However, people from ancient astronomers to modern navigators calculated the arc lengths and angles of triangles on a sphere. They used ...

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