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    restricted domains. Specifically, they are the inverses of the sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant functions, and are used to obtain an angle...
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    Tangent arcs are a type of halo, an atmospheric optical phenomenon, which appears above and below the observed Sun or Moon, tangent to the 22° halo. To...
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    inverse hyperbolic sine, inverse hyperbolic cosine, inverse hyperbolic tangent, inverse hyperbolic cosecant, inverse hyperbolic secant, and inverse hyperbolic...
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  • An infralateral arc (or lower lateral tangent arc) is a rare halo, an optical phenomenon appearing similar to a rainbow under a white parhelic circle...
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    In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at...
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  • the series expansions for trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, and arc tangent) by mathematicians of the Kerala school in the 15th century CE. Their...
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  • roughly, that for a given planar arc between two endpoints, there is at least one point at which the tangent to the arc is parallel to the secant through...
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    More specifically, the formulas describe the derivatives of the so-called tangent, normal, and binormal unit vectors in terms of each other. The formulas...
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    most widely used in modern mathematics are the sine, the cosine, and the tangent functions. Their reciprocals are respectively the cosecant, the secant...
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    and one of its arcs, that is technically called a half-disc. A half-disc is a special case of a segment, namely the largest one. Tangent: a coplanar straight...
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    reflect light). Since BE is the tangent to the parabola at E, the same reflection will be done by an infinitesimal arc of the parabola at E. Therefore...
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    Arc length is the distance between two points along a section of a curve. Determining the length of an irregular arc segment by approximating the arc...
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    In trigonometry, the law of tangents or tangent rule is a statement about the relationship between the tangents of two angles of a triangle and the lengths...
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  • s, which may be thought as the time or as the arc length from a given origin. Let T(s) be a unit tangent vector of the curve at P(s), which is also the...
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    A Parry arc is a rare halo, an optical phenomenon which occasionally appears over a 22° halo together with an upper tangent arc. The halo was first described...
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  • geometry, a tangent line to a circle is a line that touches the circle at exactly one point, never entering the circle's interior. Tangent lines to circles...
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    a point or secant tangent theorem) it is possible to calculate the radius r of a circle given the height H and the width W of an arc: Consider the chord...
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  • cosine tan computes tangent asin computes arc sine acos computes arc cosine atan computes arc tangent atan2 computes arc tangent, using signs to determine...
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    117: 281–299. doi:10.1007/BF02395047. Todd, John (1949). "A Problem on Arc Tangent Relations". The American Mathematical Monthly. 56 (8): 517–528. doi:10...
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    The circumzenithal arc, also called the circumzenith arc (CZA), the upside-down rainbow, and the Bravais arc, is an optical phenomenon similar in appearance...
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    the states at the Fermi level in metals giving a "rising edge" with an arc tangent shape; the bound core excitons in insulators with a Lorentzian line-shape...
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    {1+\left({\frac {d}{dx}}\cosh x\right)^{2}}}\,dx={\text{arc length.}}} The hyperbolic tangent is the (unique) solution to the differential equation f ′...
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    Upper Tangent Arc, Parry Arc, Supralateral Arc : May 2024 : Skagit Valley, Washington Infralateral arc Parry arc Lowitz arc "Supralateral arc". Arbeitskreis...
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    halo display (22° halo, sun dogs, upper tangent arc, upper and lower Sun pillar, parhelic circle, supralateral arc) observed in Les Ménuires (elevation ≈2200...
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    cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud Rainbow Sprite (lightning) Subsun Sun dog Tangent arc Tyndall effect Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue...
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    Cycloid (section Arc length)
    same time tangent at P 2 {\displaystyle P_{2}} to the lower arc because of the tension and the facts demonstrated above. (If it were not tangent there would...
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    2**(-i) in the loop below for arc_tangent in theta_table: sigma = +1 if theta < alpha else -1 theta += sigma * arc_tangent x, y = x - sigma * y * P2i, sigma...
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  • }}(t)\right|_{t=t_{0}}} is the tangent vector at the point P = γ(t0). Generally speaking, the tangent vector may be zero. The tangent vector's magnitude ‖ γ ′...
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    curves may also define an angle, which is the angle of the rays lying tangent to the respective curves at their point of intersection. The magnitude...
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    First, draw the family of tangent lines. Then, an involute can be constructed by always staying orthogonal to the tangent line passing the point. This...
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