Trigonometry Examples

$\sin (- \frac{π}{2})$

Step 1

Add full rotations of $2 π$ until the angle is greater than or equal to $0$ and less than $2 π$ .

$\sin (\frac{3 π}{2})$

Step 2

Apply the reference angle by finding the angle with equivalent trig values in the first quadrant. Make the expression negative because sine is negative in the fourth quadrant.

$- \sin (\frac{π}{2})$

Step 3

The exact value of $\sin (\frac{π}{2})$ is $1$ .

$- 1 \cdot 1$

Step 4

Multiply $- 1$ by $1$ .

$- 1$