May 22, 2014 · I was just wondering if you use degrees or radians in trig functions. For example if I have a degree of 0.5 would I do: Sin (0.5) or would I have to convert that to radians?

Do you know the difference between degrees and radians? It seems to me that there might be more fundamental problem than typing a value into calculator.

Mar 22, 2014 · This defines the constant $\pi$ and shows that an eighth of a turn (angle of the isosceles right triangle) is $\frac {\pi} {4}$ radians, equivalent to 45 degrees (by definition of the degrees).

Jun 26, 2015 · I'm still struggling to understand why the derivative of sine only works for radians. I had always thought that radians and degrees were both arbitrary units of measurement, and just now I'm …

Dec 3, 2015 · This is because radians have a mathematical "naturalness" that leads to a more elegant formulation of a number of important results. Trigonometric functions for instance, are simple and …

Jul 18, 2017 · And plenty of "real-world" applications use degrees and polar coordinates. Problems in navigation, for example, are almost always done in degrees, and are effectively problems in polar …

Oct 22, 2023 · I understand that the argument of a trigonometric function must be a pure number (a radian, if you will) and hence when we talk of 'measuring angles in degrees' we mean things such as …

Jun 1, 2019 · The answer to the question in the title is, use radians in any mathematics class at or above the level of Calculus, also when talking to a mathematician; use degrees everywhere else.

The result of your calculation is going to depend on whether your calculator is in degrees or radians. SOH CAH TOA, though, is independent of radians or degrees, because it is going the other way.

That function can be interpreted as taking an angle in radians and spitting out a ratio that relates to that angle. If you have an angle measured in degrees, you need to convert it to radians before you feed it …