Before beginning this packet, the learner should be familiar with the following:
Furthermore, if the learner should be comfortable with the notion of measuring angles in radians. For convenience we define radian measures here. Radians are angles measured as fractions as relative quantities of pi. You can have 1 radian, 2 radians, 7 radians, or pi radians. The basic equivalence between radians and degrees is:
So that, for example, converting 360 degrees or 90 degrees to radians can be put in terms of the above equivalence:
And that is pretty much all there is to measuring angles with radians instead of degrees.
This video uses basic trigonometric knowledge and knowledge of the pythagorean theorem to motivate a discussion of the unit circle.
This image has been copied directly from wikipedia - it is a perfect reference to help you memorize some of the most common sine and cosine values using the unit circle as a mnemonic.
