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Useful trigonometric formulas for finding areas of circles

If you’re trying to find the area of a circle using integration methods, then these trigonometric formulas are going to be very useful:

First formulas:

\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta +\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta =1 } } \\ \\ \therefore \quad { r }^{ 2 }\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta +{ r }^{ 2 }\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta ={ r }^{ 2 } } } \\ \\ \therefore \quad { r }^{ 2 }\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta ={ r }^{ 2 }-{ r }^{ 2 }\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta } } \\ \\ \therefore \quad { r }^{ 2 }\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta ={ r }^{ 2 }\left( 1-\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta } \right) }

Second formulas:

\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta +\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta =1 } } \\ \\ \therefore \quad { r }^{ 2 }\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta +{ r }^{ 2 }\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta ={ r }^{ 2 } } } \\ \\ \therefore \quad { r }^{ 2 }\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta ={ r }^{ 2 }-{ r }^{ 2 }\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta } } \\ \\ \therefore \quad { r }^{ 2 }\cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta ={ r }^{ 2 }\left( 1-\sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta } \right) }

These formulas are to be used when you have to transform the expression:

{ y }=\sqrt { { r }^{ 2 }-{ x }^{ 2 } }

You can either make:

x=r\sin { \theta }

Or…

x=r\cos { \theta }

The choice is yours. 🙂

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