The second quadrant (top left).
On a Unit Circle, the cosine is the x coordinate of the point on the circle represented by an angle. Angles greater than 90° (pi/2 radians) and less than 270° (3*pi/2 radians) are to the left of the y-axis, so x is negative. Quadrant I is the upper right quadrant (x positive, y positive) 0° < ɵ < 90° Quadrant II is the upper left quadrant (x negative, y positive) 90° < ɵ < 180° Quadrant III is the lower left quadrant (x negative, y negative) 180° < ɵ < 270° Quadrant IV is the lower right quadrant (x positive, y negative) 270° < ɵ < 360°
Reciprocal of tangent is '1 /tangent' or ' Cosine / Sine '
Sine Cosine Tangent Cotangent Secant Cosecant
Since you didn't specify which trigonometric function you're using, I'll give you all of them.120 in Degreessin120 ~ 0.87cos120 ~ -0.5tan120 ~ -1.73csc120 ~ 1.15sec120 = -2cot120 ~ -0.58Answer in Degreesarctan120 ~ 89.52arccot120 ~ 0.48120 in Radianssin120 ~ 0.58cos120 ~ 0.81tan120 ~ 0.71csc120 ~ 1.72sec120 ~ 1.23cot120 ~ 1.4Answer in Radiansarctan120 ~ 1.56arccot120 ~ 0.008
The derivative of negative cosine is positive sine.
Sine is positive and cosine is negative in the second quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system. In this quadrant, the angle is between 90 and 180 degrees, where the y-coordinate (sine) is positive and the x-coordinate (cosine) is negative. Thus, for any angle in the second quadrant, sine values are above the x-axis, while cosine values are below it.
It will be in 3rd Quadrant because cosine and sine both are negative in 3rd Quadrant
All the angles in 4th quadrant have positive cosine and negative sine e.g. 280,290,300,310...etc.
Cotangent is ' 1/tangent' or ' Cosine / Sine'.
Cotangent is 1 / tangent. Since tangent is sine / cosine, cotangent is cosine / sine.
If you are familiar with trigonometric functions defined in terms of the unit circle, the x and y coordinates are negative in the third quadrant. As a result, x/y, the ratio that defines cotangent, is positive.
On a Unit Circle, the cosine is the x coordinate of the point on the circle represented by an angle. Angles greater than 90° (pi/2 radians) and less than 270° (3*pi/2 radians) are to the left of the y-axis, so x is negative. Quadrant I is the upper right quadrant (x positive, y positive) 0° < ɵ < 90° Quadrant II is the upper left quadrant (x negative, y positive) 90° < ɵ < 180° Quadrant III is the lower left quadrant (x negative, y negative) 180° < ɵ < 270° Quadrant IV is the lower right quadrant (x positive, y negative) 270° < ɵ < 360°
The tangent function is equal to the sine divided by the cosine. In quadrant III, both sin and cos are negative - and a negative divided by another negative is positive. Thus it follows that the tangent is positive in QIII.
sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant and cotangent.
Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Cotangent, secant and cosecant
Tangent and cotangent positive; other 4 negative.
sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant, cotangent.