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Deriving the Double Angle Trig Identities

Author: Hannah Solomon

This video uses the sum identities for sine and cosine to derive the double angle identities for sine and cosine. The key is rewriting \(\sin (2x)\) as \(\sin (x+x)\) to use the sum identity and then simplifying the answer.

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