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| Geometrically, the cosine is a projection of the complex number exp(−ix) to the real axis. The behavior of the cosine function can be studied in the following interactive figure, where you can drag the point x and observe the behaviour of the complex number exp(−ix) and the value of cosine(x).   | Geometrically, the cosine is a projection of the complex number exp(−ix) to the real axis. The behavior of the cosine function can be studied in the following interactive figure, where you can drag the point x and observe the behaviour of the complex number exp(−ix) and the value of cosine(x).   | ||
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| |Cosine | |||
| |Unit Circle on the Complex Plane | |||
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| |  <jsxgraph box="boxR" width="500" height="500">   | |||
|         var brd1 = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('boxR', {boundingbox: [-10, 1.5, 10, -1.5], axis:true}); |         var brd1 = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('boxR', {boundingbox: [-10, 1.5, 10, -1.5], axis:true}); | ||
|         var xr = brd1.create('line',[[-9,0],[9,0]],{visible:false}); |         var xr = brd1.create('line',[[-9,0],[9,0]],{visible:false}); | ||
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|     </jsxgraph>   |     </jsxgraph>   | ||
| |   <jsxgraph box="box" width="500" height="500">   | |||
|         var brd = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('box', {boundingbox: [-1.5, 1.5, 1.5, -1.5], axis:true});   |         var brd = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('box', {boundingbox: [-1.5, 1.5, 1.5, -1.5], axis:true});   | ||
|         brd1.addChild(brd); |         brd1.addChild(brd); | ||
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|     </jsxgraph>   |     </jsxgraph>   | ||
| |} | |||
Revision as of 13:07, 6 March 2016
Geometrically, the cosine is a projection of the complex number exp(−ix) to the real axis. The behavior of the cosine function can be studied in the following interactive figure, where you can drag the point x and observe the behaviour of the complex number exp(−ix) and the value of cosine(x).
| Cosine | Unit Circle on the Complex Plane | 
