YES! If you can't do algebra, you won't last ten seconds in trigonometry. It basically is algebra, just using equations within equations.
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You need to be able to solve logarithms and be very good at algebra. In college, you have to be able to do college level algebra before you can take trig.
Trigonometry is essential to the study of higher mathematics (calculus) and to the understanding of many scientific and engineering principles. Trigonometry and calculus can be used to model many shapes, motions, and functions in daily life.
Depending on your career, you may or may not need trigonometry. If your job does not require a lot of math, it is unlikely that you will use trigonometry very often, however, this is not a reason not to study it. The skills and discipline developed in your trigoometry class will help you no matter what career you choose.
Depending on your career, you may or may not need trigonometry. If your job does not require a lot of math, it is unlikely that you will use trigonometry very often, however, this is not a reason not to study it. The skills and discipline developed in your trigoometry class will help you no matter what career you choose. Basic trigonometry - angles or side-lengths of right-angled triangles - is quite common in many practical applications, and not just professionally. Surveying uses the more complex, as well as basic, trig rules. However, trigonometry as such is found in all manner of fields. For example, in electronics, sound & vibration studies, analysing wave behaviour and characteristics is very largely trigonometrical because the "shape" of a basic sound-wave, simple alternating-current electricity or indeed ocean swell is a sine function.
There are several topics under the broad category of trigonometry. * Angle measurements * Properties of angles and circles * Basic trigonometric functions and their reciprocals and co-functions * Graphs of trigonometric functions * Trigonometric identities * Angle addition and subtraction formulas for trigonometric functions * Double and half angle formulas for trigonometric functions * Law of sines and law of cosines * Polar and polar imaginary coordinates.