using trigonometric identities to simplify the expression
cscqsecq - cosq
Are you sure you copied it right? Are you sure it wasn't
supposed to be
cscqsecq - cotq ??
I'm going to assume it was supposed to be "cotq"
and not "cosq"; for otherwise it won't simplify at all!
cscqsecq - cotq
1 1 cosq
Since cscq = ------ , secq = ------, and cotq = ------
sinq cosq sinq
1 1 cosq
------·------ - ------
sinq cosq sinq
1 cosq
---------- - ------
sinqcosq sinq
Get an LCD of sinqcosq. Multiply the second
fraction top and bottom by cosq
1 cosq(cosq)
---------- - ---------------
sinqcosq sinq(cosq)
1 cos2q
---------- - -----------
sinqcosq sinqcosq
Combine numerators over LCD:
1 - cos2q
------------
sinqcosq
Now since sin2q + cos2q = 1, then 1 - cos2q = sin2q,
so the numerator is just sin2q
sin2q
----------
sinqcosq
Then we can cancel the sinq in the
bottom into the sin2q in the top
sinq
sin2q
----------
sinqcosq
1
Then all that's left is
sinq
------
cosq
sinq
and since tanq = ------
cosq
The final answer is
tanq
Edwin