10.5.1 Introduction to Trigonometric

Maxima has many trigonometric functions defined. Not all trigonometric identities are programmed, but it is possible for the user to add many of them using the pattern matching capabilities of the system. The trigonometric functions defined in Maxima are: acos, acosh, acot, acoth, acsc, acsch, asec, asech, asin, asinh, atan, atanh, cos, cosh, cot, coth, csc, csch, sec, sech, sin, sinh, tan, and tanh. There are a number of commands especially for handling trigonometric functions, see trigexpand, trigreduce, and the switch trigsign. Two share packages extend the simplification rules built into Maxima, ntrig and atrig1. Do describe(command) for details.