How does soh cah toa apply to a right triangle?
1 Answer
Apr 22, 2015
soh:
S in = O pposite over H ypotenuse
cah:
C os = A adjacent over H ypotenuse
toa:
T an = O pposite over A djacent
These are a set of mnemonics to help remember how to derive the basic trig functions for a (non-right) angle of a right triangle. (They only apply to right triangles).
