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Trigonometry (P3)

3.2

What the syllabus asks of you

  • Knowledge of secant, cosecant and cotangent and of arcsin, arccos and arctan. Their relationships to sine, cosine and tangent. Understanding of their graphs and appropriate restricted domains.
  • Knowledge and use of sec2 θ = 1 + tan2 θ and cosec2 θ = 1 + cot2 θ.
  • Knowledge and use of double angle formulae; use of formulae for sin (A ± B), cos (A ± B) and tan (A ± B) and of expressions for a cos θ + b sin θ in the equivalent forms of r cos (θ ± a) or r sin (θ ± a).

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Chapter 11: Trigonometry

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All 23 questions on Trigonometry (P3), untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.

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23 questions

These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.