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P2 Topic 4: Trigonometry
arcsin, arccos and arctan backmore
Use the displays below to get familiar with the shapes of the graphs of the inverse functions arcsin, arccos and arctan.
Note that these functions are also refered to as sin-1, cos-1 and tan-1
y=sin(ax)
y=arcsin(ax)
 

 
y=cos(ax)
y=arccos(ax)
 

 
y=tan(ax)
y=arctan(ax)

Based on free Java applets from JavaMath