Sec, Cosec And Cot – Mathematics A-Level Revision

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Sec, Cosec and Cot

Secant, cosecant and cotangent, almost always written as sec, cosec and cot are trigonometric functions like sin, cos and tan.

sec x = 1 cos x

cosec x = 1 sin x cot x = 1 = cos x tan x sin x

Note, sec x is not the same as cos-1x (sometimes written as arccos x).

Remember, you cannot divide by zero and so these definitions are only valid when the denominators are not zero.

Example

If sec x = 2, cos x = ½, x = 60º

Graphs of sec x and cosec x

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