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Question: how to simplify arctan(sin(x)/cos(x)) ?

Question:how to simplify arctan(sin(x)/cos(x)) ?

Mary Pugh 22 Maple
October 30 2006
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Hi, Is there some way to get maple to replace "arctan(sin(theta)/cos(theta))" with theta? I know that it doesn't always equal theta :-) but I'm switching to and fro and to and fro, between cartesian and polar coordinates and... As a consenting adult, I'd like maple to trust me to be able to keep track of things myself. I tried "assume(theta > 0, theta less than Pi/2)" and that didn't help. (Note: I really used the "less than" symbol but for some reason this post gets cut off by that symbol so I wrote it out...) I also tried "convert(arctan(sin(theta)/cos(theta)),trig)" and "simplify(arctan(sin(theta)/cos(theta)),trig)". many thanks! Mary
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