Thursday, January 10, 2013

Prove that cosa*cosb

We'll consider the constraint a - b = pi => a = pi
+ b


We'll calculate the cosine function of the angle
a:


cos a = cos (pi + b)


We'll
use the following identity:


cos (x+y) = cosx*cosy -
sinx*siny


Comparing, we'll
get:


cos (pi + b) = cos pi*cos b - sin pi*sin
b


But cos pi = - 1 and sin pi =
0


cos (pi + b) = -cos
b


Therefore cos a = - cos
b.


If we'll multiply a negative number by a
positive number, the result is a negative number, therefore cos a*cos b = - (cos b)^2
=<0.

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