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September 29, 2013
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Inverse of Tan Theta

  • September 29, 2013
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Hi All,

In MathCAD Prime 2 I am trying to write inverse of tan to get the value of theta. Please see attached.

1. I am not getting the right answer (please see file 1). The value of theta should be 36.86.

2. I am not being able to write it (please see file 2).

Can someone please advise how to correct this?

Regards,

Lakhvinder Singh

3 replies

24-Ruby IV
September 29, 2013

See please the atan function.

25-Diamond I
September 29, 2013

As alread advised by Valery - use atan(). Thats what arctan() is in my math books and what atan^-1 is on your calculator.

The result will be in radians, to get it in degree simply put the desired unit after the result.

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24-Ruby IV
September 29, 2013

Werner Exinger wrote:

Thats what arctan() is in my math books...

My students do so in Math works with Mathcad:

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And the second:

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25-Diamond I
September 29, 2013

The second pic doesn't show and the link is broken.

lsingh-21-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
September 29, 2013

Gentlemen,

Thanks for your help, much appreciated. I thought writing tan inverse was straightforward and struggled on this for a few hours.

Regards,

Lakhvinder