• Cosine error is a type of measurement error caused by the difference between the intended and actual directions in which a measurement is taken. Depending...
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    In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle. The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle:...
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    will still be relative rather than absolute because of factors such as cosine error (discussed later). In a quality environment to check for consistency...
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  • A discrete cosine transform (DCT) expresses a finite sequence of data points in terms of a sum of cosine functions oscillating at different frequencies...
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    zero cosine error. Whereas dial test indicators will give a foreshortened reading if their tips are on an angle to the surface being measured (cosine error)...
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    trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles...
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    speed of the police and target vehicle. Like radar, lidar is subject to cosine error effect. Sweeping the device while taking a reading so that (particularly...
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    trigonometric functions most widely used in modern mathematics are the sine, the cosine, and the tangent functions. Their reciprocals are respectively the cosecant...
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    approximate instantaneous speed. Non-relativistic discrepancies include cosine error which occurs in speed detection devices when only one scalar component...
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    Solar tracker (category CS1 errors: ISBN date)
    the incoming sunlight and a photovoltaic panel, sometimes known as the cosine error. Reducing this angle increases the amount of energy produced from a fixed...
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    In mathematics, the Fourier sine and cosine transforms are integral equations that decompose arbitrary functions into a sum of sine waves representing...
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    Fourier series, which is the cause of the Gibbs phenomenon. The different cosine integral definitions are Cin ⁡ ( x )   ≡   ∫ 0 x   1 − cos ⁡ t   t   d ⁡...
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    simplifying the cosine function at MATLAB tukeywin and substituting r=α and x=n/N. Harris 1978 (p 67, eq 38) appears to have two errors: (1) The subtraction...
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    In spherical trigonometry, the law of cosines (also called the cosine rule for sides) is a theorem relating the sides and angles of spherical triangles...
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    Spherical trigonometry (category CS1 errors: ISBN date)
    the above substitutions. This is how the supplemental cosine equations are derived from the cosine equations. Similarly, the identities for a quadrantal...
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  • frequency carrier wave. The modulation is accomplished by varying the sine and cosine inputs at a precise time. It is widely used for wireless LANs, RFID and...
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    the Box–Muller method which does not require computation of the sine and cosine functions. In this method, U and V are drawn from the uniform (−1,1) distribution...
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  • The modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) is a transform based on the type-IV discrete cosine transform (DCT-IV), with the additional property of...
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  • border. Named after Cosine Lake, which is about 3 kilometres north. The name comes from when one of the surveyors in the area made an error in calculation...
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    suitably restricted domains. Specifically, they are the inverses of the sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant functions, and are used to obtain...
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  • synchronisation point of view as any phase error results in steeply increasing intersymbol interference. Raised-cosine is similar to sinc, with the tradeoff...
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  • 24 349.2 {\displaystyle 24\,349.2} (a percent error of ≈0.003%). If we want the product of the cosines of the two initial values, which is useful in some...
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    stereo, and 384 kbit/s for 5.1 audio. AAC uses only a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) algorithm, giving it higher compression efficiency than...
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    Versine (redirect from Versed cosine)
    Section I) trigonometric tables. The versine of an angle is 1 minus its cosine. There are several related functions, most notably the coversine and haversine...
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    (which is an explicit feature of some high-end mirror mounts), a small cosine error in the movement of the mirror is overlaid onto the linear movement of...
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    Carl Friedrich Gauss, among others. The lemniscate sine and lemniscate cosine functions, usually written with the symbols sl and cl (sometimes the symbols...
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    For small angles, the trigonometric functions sine, cosine, and tangent can be calculated with reasonable accuracy by the following simple approximations:...
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    x^{n}} for any even integer n , {\displaystyle n,} cosine cos , {\displaystyle \cos ,} hyperbolic cosine cosh , {\displaystyle \cosh ,} Gaussian function...
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    that he found the Taylor series for the trigonometric functions of sine, cosine, and arctangent (see Madhava series). During the following two centuries...
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    Haversine formula (category CS1 errors: ISBN date)
    formula can be written using cosines (sometimes called the spherical law of cosines, not to be confused with the law of cosines for plane geometry) instead...
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