First look at arccos(4/x). That asks the question:
"What angle has 4/x for its cosine?"
So we draw a right triangle and let the angle be
arccos(4/x)
and since the cosine is the adjacent over the hypotenuse,
we let the adjacent side be 4 and the hypotenuse be x:
Let the opposite side be h.
All we need now is to find the opposite side h by the
Pythagorean theorem:
So the triangle is now:
So now the sine of arccos(4/x) is found by taking
the opposite side over the hypotenuse:
sin(arccos()) =
Edwin