Lösung 4.4:5b

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Let's first investigate when the equality

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is satisfied. Because \displaystyle \tan u can be interpreted as the slope (gradient) of the line which makes an angle u with the positive x-axis, we see that for a fixed value of \displaystyle \tan u, there are two angles v in the unit circle with this slope,

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The angle v has the same slope after every half turn, so if we add multiples of \displaystyle \pi to u, we will obtain all the angles v which satisfy the equality

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where n is an arbitrary integer.

If we apply this result to the equation

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we see that the solutions are given by

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and solving for x gives

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