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Quarter-Turn Identities and Periodicity of Sine and Cosine

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Reason: First publication. The quarter-turn identities at $\pi/2$, the half turn, $2\pi$-periodicity, invariance under every integer multiple of $2\pi$ with the values $\cos(2\pi m)=1$ and $\sin(2\pi m)=0$, and positivity of the sine on $(0,\pi)$. · 1,195 chars · 5 deps · depth 16

Shifting the argument by π/2\pi/2 exchanges the sine and the cosine up to sign; iterating gives cos⁡(x+π)=−cos⁡x\cos(x+\pi)=-\cos x, sin⁡(x+π)=−sin⁡x\sin(x+\pi)=-\sin x and then invariance under every integer multiple of 2π2\pi. The sine is positive on (0,π)(0,\pi).

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let cos⁡\cos and sin⁡\sin be the cosine and sine functions from R\mathbb{R} to R\mathbb{R}, let π\pi be the real number of The Number Pi §pi, and let Z\mathbb{Z} be the set of integers. The number 2=1+12=1+1 is positive, hence invertible, by claim 8 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field, and we write π2=π⋅2−1\tfrac{\pi}{2}=\pi\cdot2^{-1}. Then the following hold for every x∈Rx\in\mathbb{R}.

1. (Quarter turn)

cos⁡(x+π2)=−sin⁡x,sin⁡(x+π2)=cos⁡x.\cos\bigl(x+\tfrac{\pi}{2}\bigr)=-\sin x, \qquad \sin\bigl(x+\tfrac{\pi}{2}\bigr)=\cos x .

2. (Half turn)

cos⁡(x+π)=−cos⁡x,sin⁡(x+π)=−sin⁡x.\cos(x+\pi)=-\cos x, \qquad \sin(x+\pi)=-\sin x .

3. (Period)

cos⁡(x+2π)=cos⁡x,sin⁡(x+2π)=sin⁡x.\cos(x+2\pi)=\cos x, \qquad \sin(x+2\pi)=\sin x .

4. (Integer multiples of the period) For every m∈Zm\in\mathbb{Z},

cos⁡(x+2πm)=cos⁡x,sin⁡(x+2πm)=sin⁡x;\cos(x+2\pi m)=\cos x, \qquad \sin(x+2\pi m)=\sin x ;

in particular cos⁡(2πm)=1\cos(2\pi m)=1 and sin⁡(2πm)=0\sin(2\pi m)=0.

5. (Positivity of the sine on a half period) If 0<x<π0<x<\pi, then 0<sin⁡x0<\sin x.

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