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Trigonometry/Derivative of Sine
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To find the derivative of sin(θ).
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Clearly, the limit of the first term is since is a continuous function. Write ; the second term is then
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Which we proved earlier tends to 1 as .
And since
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the limit of the second term is 1 too. Thus
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