Thursday, October 12, 2017

trigonometry - Simplify a quick sum of sines




Simplify $\sin 2+\sin 4+\sin 6+\cdots+\sin 88$



I tried using the sum-to-product formulae, but it was messy, and I didn't know what else to do. Could I get a bit of help? Thanks.


Answer



The angles are in arithmetic progression. Use the formula



$$\sum_{k=0}^{n-1} \sin (a+kb) = \frac{\sin \frac{nb}{2}}{\sin \frac{b}{2}} \sin \left( a+ (n-1)\frac{b}{2}\right)$$



See here for two proofs (using trigonometry, or using complex numbers).




In your case, $a=b=2$ and $n=44$.


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