Circular motion and Differentiation of Trig functions
- Author:
- Richard Trimble
- Topic:
- Calculus, Derivative, Functions, Trigonometry
Imagine a point moving around a unit circle at 1m/s.
What is it's displacement vector?
What is it's velocity vector?
What can we tell about the derivatives of sin(x) and cos(x) through this?
Based on an activity at Underground Mathematics - Rotating Derivatives