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- From: kanad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kanad Chakraborty)
- Subject: Re: Trig. inequality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.051945.4298@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <1ekddfINNi96@uwm.edu> <1992Nov22.030801.4773@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:19:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.030801.4773@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
- >In article <1ekddfINNi96@uwm.edu>
- >radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe) writes:
- >
- >> Show that (sin x)^(sin x) < (cos x)^(cos x) when 0 < x < pi/4.
- >>
- >> --
- >> David Radcliffe
- >> radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- >
- >Simple math. Remember that (sin x)^2+(cos x)^2=1. An identity from my
- >trig class back in high school. Setting sin x equal to cos x, we get
- >(sin x)^2=1/2. The answer to this is x=pi/4. And since sin x
- >increases from 0 to 1 as x increases from 0 to pi/2, it's obvious that
- >cos x will be greater than sin x. As neither is negative in this
- >range, (cos x)^2 will be greater than (sin x)^2 from 0<x<pi/4. I
- ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
- Where did you get (cos x)^2 and (sin x)^2 from ? You need to
- show that (cos x)^(cos x) [which is not the same as (cos x)^2]
- is greater than (sin x)^(sin x).
-
- >haven't taken any math since freshman year of college, but this was
- >easy!
- >
- >
- >--Ted Schuerzinger
- >email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
- >"I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
- >was 'Russian Vodka'."
-
- Consider the following approach :
-
- The function f(x) = x^(1/sqrt(1-x^2)) is monotonically increasing for
- 0 < x < 1, easily verified by taking the derivative.
- Since 0 < sin x < cos x < 1 for 0 < x < pi/4, f(sin x) < f(cos x).
- But f(sin x) = (sin x)^(1/cos x) and f(cos x) = (cos x)^(1/sin x).
- Raising both sides to the power (cos x.sin x), we get the desired
- result.
-
- Kanad Chakraborty
-