How many of the following functions are not sinusoidal?
Definition: A sinusoidal function is continuous and periodic.
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Among the six trigonometric functions, only sin x and cos x are sinusoidal.
As x value increases, sin x is always between -1 and 1. The absolute value of this function is thus between in f and x, and since x value changes, this value also changes. It is not sinusoidal because it is neither continuous nor periodic.
Since II) reduces to cot x , it is not a sinusoidal function because it is not continuous.
sec 1 8 0 ∘ = cos 1 8 0 ∘ 1 = − 1 1 = − 1 . If sin x is sinusoidal, − s i n x is sinusoidal too. Therefore, III) is sinusoidal. We have 2 non-sinusoidal functions.