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Compound Angles – sin(A+B) = cosAsinB+sinAcosB

February 7th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Compound angles are angles made by adding two other angles together. When using trigonometry unfortunately you cant just “times out” the trig function but have to use an identity. This post will consider how we get the identity for sin(A+B):

sin(A+B) = sinAcosB+sinBcosA

Compound angle of A+B showing how they relate

Compound angle of A+B showing how they relate

From the definition of sin=opp/hyp we find

sin(A+B) = RT/OR

But sinceRT comprises of RS+ST

Compund Angle derivation

By David Woodford



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  2. Dakaa
    March 11th, 2009 at 06:21 | #2

    lol, right timing, published this guide on the day i learned it, and i didn’t get it at all.

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  4. patrick
    June 17th, 2010 at 12:37 | #4

    I need aformula to determine the dimension of a compond angle I know hon to set the compond sine but for got the formula for dimensioning on sine plate

  5. admin
    June 18th, 2010 at 06:07 | #5

    Thanks for visiting,
    I’m not entirely sure what you mean by dimensioning on the sine plate

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