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Proof of the law of sines
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I will now do a proof
of the law of sines. So, let's see, let me draw
an arbitrary triangle. That's one side right there. And then I've got
another side here. I'll try to make it look a
little strange so you realize it can apply to any triangle. And let's say we know the
following information. We know this angle -- well,
actually, I'm not going to say what we know or don't know, but
the law of sines is just a relationship between different
angles and different sides. Let's say that this angle
right here is alpha. This side here is A. The length here is A. Let's say that this side
here is beta, and that the length here is B. Beta is just B with
a long end there. So let's see if we can find a
relationship that connects A and B, and alpha and beta. So what can we do? And hopefully that
relationship we find will be the law of sines. Otherwise, I would have
to rename this video. So let me draw an
altitude here. I think that's the proper term. If I just draw a line from this
side coming straight down, and it's going to be perpendicular
to this bottom side, which I haven't labeled, but I'll
probably, if I have to label it, probably label it C,
because that's A and B. And this is going to
be a 90 degree angle. I don't know the
length of that. I don't know anything about it. All I know is I went from this
vertex and I dropped a line that's perpendicular
to this other side. So what can we do
with this line? Well let me just say
that it has length x. The length of this line is x. Can we find a relationship
between A, the length of this line x, and beta? Well, sure. Let's see. Let me find an
appropriate color. OK. That's, I think, a good color. So what's the relationship? If we look at this angle right
here, beta, x is opposite to it and A is the hypotenuse, if we
look at this right triangle right here, right? So what deals with
opposite and hypotenuse? Whenever we do trigonometry, we
should always just right soh cah toa at the top of the page. Soh cah toa. So what deals with
opposite of hypotenuse? Sine, right? Soh, and you should probably
guess that, because I'm proving the law of sines. So the sine of beta is
equal to the opposite over the hypotenuse. It's equal to this opposite,
which is x, over the hypotenuse, which is
A, in this case. And if we wanted to solve for
x, and I'll just do that, because it'll be convenient
later, we can multiply both sides of this equation by A
and you get A sine of beta is equal to x. Fair enough. That got us someplace. Well, let's see if we
can find a relationship between alpha, B, and x. Well, similarly, if we look at
this right triangle, because this is also a right triangle,
of course, x here, relative to alpha, is also the opposite
side, and B now is the hypotenuse. So we can also write that sine
of alpha -- let me do it in a different color -- is equal
to opposite over hypotenuse. The opposite is x and
the hypotenuse is B. And let's solve for x
again, just to do it. Multiply both sides by B
and you get B sine of alpha is equal to x. So now what do we have? We have two different ways that
we solved for this thing that I dropped down from this
side, this x, right? We have A sine of
beta is equal to x. And then B sine of
alpha is equal to x. Well, if they're both equal
to x, then they're both equal to each other. So let me write that down. Let me write that down
in a soothing color. So we know that A sine of beta
is equal to x, which is also equal to B sine of beta --
sorry, B sine of alpha. If we divide both sides of this
equation by A, what do we get? We get sine of beta, right,
because the A on this side cancels out, is equal to
B sine of alpha over A. And if we divide both sides of
this equation by B, we get sine of beta over B is equal
to sine of alpha over A. So this is the law of sines. The ratio between the sine of
beta and its opposite side -- and it's the side that it
corresponds to, this B -- is equal to the ratio of the sine
of alpha and its opposite side. And a lot of times in the
books, let's say, if this angle was theta, and this was C, then
they would also write that's also equal to the sine
of theta over C. And the proof of adding
this here is identical. We've picked B arbitrarily, B
as a side, we could have done the exact same thing with theta
and C, but instead of dropping the altitude here, we would
have had to drop one of the other altitudes. And I think you could
figure out that part. But the important thing
is we have this ratio. And of course, you could have
written it -- since it's a ratio, you could flip both
sides of the ratio -- you could write it B over the sine of B
is equal to A over the sine of alpha. And this is useful, because if
you know one side and its corresponding angle, the angle
opposite it that kind of opens up into that side, and say you
know the other side, then you could figure out the angle
that opens up into it. If you know three of these
things, you can figure out the fourth. And that's what's useful
about the law of sines. So maybe now I will do a few
law of sines word problems. I'll see you in the next video.