Law of Sines & Cosines
Law of Sines, ambiguous case, Law of Cosines, and triangle area formulas
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📈 Law of Sines & Cosines
Apply the Law of Sines (including the ambiguous case), Law of Cosines, and area formulas to solve triangles.
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📝 Worked Example: Related Rates — Expanding Circle
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A stone is dropped into a still pond, creating a circular ripple. The radius of the ripple is increasing at a rate of cm/s. How fast is the area of the circle increasing when the radius is cm?
2Write the relationship between variables
3Differentiate both sides with respect to time
4Substitute known values
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