Prove Law of Sines and Law of Cosines
Videos and lessons with examples and solutions to help High School students
learn how to prove the Laws of Sines and Cosines and use them to solve problems.
Common Core: HSG-SRT.D.10
Law of Sines
Law of Sines: (sin A)/a = (sin B)/b = (sin C)/cProof: Law of Sines.
Trig: Law of Sines - The Derivation.
The Law of Sines
The Law of Sines is a relationship among the angles and sides of a triangle. The ratio of the sine of any of the interior angles to the length of the side opposite that angle is the same for all three interior angles.
The Law of Sines from the Wolfram
Demonstrations Project by Chris Boucher
Law of Cosines
Law of Cosines: c2 = a2 + b2 - 2abcosCThe law of Cosines is a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem. If angle C were a right angle, the cosine of angle C would be zero and the Pythagorean Theorem would result.
Law of cosines
A proof of the law of cosines using Pythagorean Theorem and algebra.
The Law of Cosines - Proof
This is a proof of the Law of Cosines that uses the xy-coordinate plane and the distance formula. It does not introduce any letters other than a, b, c, and ?. The idea is that we move a triangle such that one of the sides rests on the x-axis; the formula comes from algebraic manipulation after finding the length of the side opposite the angle. It also works for any angle, so we don't have to do tedious proofs for acute angles, obtuse angles, and angles greater than 180 degrees.
(Errata: b2sin? should be b2sin2?)
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