Variation Of Graphs, Periodicity, and Extreme values
Variation of trigonometric Ratios
1) Variation of sinx
As x increases from to 0 to \(\pi \over 2\) \(\to\) sinx increases from 0 to 1
As x incerases from \(\pi \over 2\) to \(\pi\) \(\to\)sinx decreases from 1 to 0
As x increases from \(\pi\) to \(3\pi \over 2\) \(\to\)sinx decreases from 0 to -1
As x increases from \(3\pi \over 2\) to \(2\pi\) \(\to\)sinx increases from -1 to 0.
II) Variation of cos x :
As x increases from to 0 to\(\pi \over 2\) \(\to\)cos x decreases from 1 to 0
As x incerases from \(\pi \over 2\) to \(\pi\to\) cos x decreases from 0 to -1
As x increases from \(\pi\) to \({3\pi \over 2} \to\) cos x increases from -1to 0
As x increases from \(3\pi \over 2\) to \(2\pi \to\) cos x increases from 0 to 1.
III) Variation of tanx :
As x increases from to 0 to \({\pi \over 2}\to\) tan x increases from 0 to \(\infty \)
As x incerases from \(\pi \over 2\) to \(\pi\) \(\to\) tan x increases from -\(\infty \) to 0
As x increases from \(\pi\) to \({3\pi \over 2}\to\) tan x increases from 0 to \(\infty \)
As x increases from \({3\pi \over 2}\) to \(2\pi\) tan x increases from -\(\infty \) to 0
Note : Similarly we can obtain the variations of \(\cos ecx,\sec x\) and cot x. These vaiations can be easily understood from the graphs.