Above is a quick refresher on each trig function. You only really need sin, cos, tan – but for convenience:
(think SOHCAHTOA on the unit circle)
Recall the formula of a circle is
and if our and
coordinates
lie on the circle (which they do) then:
Take this identity and divide both sides by :
We could instead have divded both sides by :
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