Why do you use T for period in trigonometry?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/19/2019

Simple harmonic motion - such as the motion of a simple pendulum, electromagnetic and other waves, tidal heights - may be modelled as sine (or cosine) curves. In these cases, the periodicity of the function is measured in units of time.

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