Please show $|sin(n+1)x| = |sin(nx+x)|$ [closed]












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Pretty straightforward. I'm looking at a textbook for analysis, in chapter 1, I am not familiar with how



$|sin(n+1)x| = |sin(nx+x)|$



Could someone show me the proof or method here? I'm sure it's quite simple but I don't see it.










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    your notation is ambiguous. It looks like your left hand side should be "$sin((n+1)x)$".
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    Pretty straight forward identity.
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Pretty straightforward. I'm looking at a textbook for analysis, in chapter 1, I am not familiar with how



$|sin(n+1)x| = |sin(nx+x)|$



Could someone show me the proof or method here? I'm sure it's quite simple but I don't see it.










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    your notation is ambiguous. It looks like your left hand side should be "$sin((n+1)x)$".
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    Pretty straight forward identity.
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Pretty straightforward. I'm looking at a textbook for analysis, in chapter 1, I am not familiar with how



$|sin(n+1)x| = |sin(nx+x)|$



Could someone show me the proof or method here? I'm sure it's quite simple but I don't see it.










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Pretty straightforward. I'm looking at a textbook for analysis, in chapter 1, I am not familiar with how



$|sin(n+1)x| = |sin(nx+x)|$



Could someone show me the proof or method here? I'm sure it's quite simple but I don't see it.







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    your notation is ambiguous. It looks like your left hand side should be "$sin((n+1)x)$".
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    – Stefan Smith
    Dec 20 '13 at 3:53












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    Pretty straight forward identity.
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    – Narasimham
    Dec 30 '18 at 20:30


















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    your notation is ambiguous. It looks like your left hand side should be "$sin((n+1)x)$".
    $endgroup$
    – Stefan Smith
    Dec 20 '13 at 3:53












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    Pretty straight forward identity.
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    – Narasimham
    Dec 30 '18 at 20:30
















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your notation is ambiguous. It looks like your left hand side should be "$sin((n+1)x)$".
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– Stefan Smith
Dec 20 '13 at 3:53






$begingroup$
your notation is ambiguous. It looks like your left hand side should be "$sin((n+1)x)$".
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– Stefan Smith
Dec 20 '13 at 3:53














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Pretty straight forward identity.
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– Narasimham
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Pretty straight forward identity.
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I presume that on the left-hand side, we actually have $|sin[(n + 1)x]|$, in which case we need only distribute $x$ within the argument of $sin$ to obtain the right-hand side of the equation.



$((n + 1)x) = (nx + x)$.



It's as simple as that.






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    @AtahualpaInca But it answers the question, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make sense to have a large answer on something this simple.
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    @Atahualpa Before judging, please search the meta.mse site for discussions about the unfortunate growing number of "unanswered" questions, in part due to those who comment but do not answer.
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    @AtahualpaInca I don't dine on questions, sorry about that. Answering questions, at least for me, is not a matter of "competing" or "hunting" or "consuming". It's about helping, at least for me. You're going to make yourself very unhappy, and quickly so, if you view this site as a "game" or competition.
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    @AtahualpaInca I am curious, what do you think should be placed as an answer to a question like this? amWhy's answer seems to be exactly answering the question -- the entire point of an answer.
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    @AtahualpaInca There have been numerous discussions about answering questions through comments; the purpose of comments are for clarification and short points, and should be considered ephemeral. In fact, it's discouraged to simply answer in a comment. Regardless, if you object to people giving short and brief answers to questions, then you ought to bring it up on meta, not here.
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Just like the spacing between words in written text, the spacing around binary mathematical operators (such as $+$ or $-$) and unary operators (e.g. $sin$, $exp$, etc.) is critical in determining the meaning.



As a general rule of mathematical typography, mathematical functions written as operators—that is, simply prefixed to the argument—are printed in roman type, followed by a thin space that precedes the argument. For example:$$sin x+sin y =2sintfrac12(x+y)sintfrac12(x-y),$$$$ln xy=ln x+ln y,qquadquad$$$$exp(x+y)=exp x+exp y.qquadqquad$$In the above examples, the typography makes the expressions completely unambiguous. Any additional parentheses would just add clutter, while the existing parentheses are needed.



In the particular case of your question, we have the simple algebraic identity$$(n+1)x=nx+x.$$When applying the sine function to this quantity, we need no further parentheses on the left-hand side; but parentheses must be introduced on the right-hand side because otherwise it would read as $$sin nx+x,$$which is the sum of $sin nx$ and $x$.






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    I presume that on the left-hand side, we actually have $|sin[(n + 1)x]|$, in which case we need only distribute $x$ within the argument of $sin$ to obtain the right-hand side of the equation.



    $((n + 1)x) = (nx + x)$.



    It's as simple as that.






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      @AtahualpaInca But it answers the question, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make sense to have a large answer on something this simple.
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      – Rivasa
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:21






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      @Atahualpa Before judging, please search the meta.mse site for discussions about the unfortunate growing number of "unanswered" questions, in part due to those who comment but do not answer.
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      @AtahualpaInca I don't dine on questions, sorry about that. Answering questions, at least for me, is not a matter of "competing" or "hunting" or "consuming". It's about helping, at least for me. You're going to make yourself very unhappy, and quickly so, if you view this site as a "game" or competition.
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      @AtahualpaInca I am curious, what do you think should be placed as an answer to a question like this? amWhy's answer seems to be exactly answering the question -- the entire point of an answer.
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      @AtahualpaInca There have been numerous discussions about answering questions through comments; the purpose of comments are for clarification and short points, and should be considered ephemeral. In fact, it's discouraged to simply answer in a comment. Regardless, if you object to people giving short and brief answers to questions, then you ought to bring it up on meta, not here.
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    I presume that on the left-hand side, we actually have $|sin[(n + 1)x]|$, in which case we need only distribute $x$ within the argument of $sin$ to obtain the right-hand side of the equation.



    $((n + 1)x) = (nx + x)$.



    It's as simple as that.






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      @AtahualpaInca But it answers the question, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make sense to have a large answer on something this simple.
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      – Rivasa
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:21






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      @Atahualpa Before judging, please search the meta.mse site for discussions about the unfortunate growing number of "unanswered" questions, in part due to those who comment but do not answer.
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      – Namaste
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:25








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      @AtahualpaInca I don't dine on questions, sorry about that. Answering questions, at least for me, is not a matter of "competing" or "hunting" or "consuming". It's about helping, at least for me. You're going to make yourself very unhappy, and quickly so, if you view this site as a "game" or competition.
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      @AtahualpaInca I am curious, what do you think should be placed as an answer to a question like this? amWhy's answer seems to be exactly answering the question -- the entire point of an answer.
      $endgroup$
      – Deven Ware
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:46








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      @AtahualpaInca There have been numerous discussions about answering questions through comments; the purpose of comments are for clarification and short points, and should be considered ephemeral. In fact, it's discouraged to simply answer in a comment. Regardless, if you object to people giving short and brief answers to questions, then you ought to bring it up on meta, not here.
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    I presume that on the left-hand side, we actually have $|sin[(n + 1)x]|$, in which case we need only distribute $x$ within the argument of $sin$ to obtain the right-hand side of the equation.



    $((n + 1)x) = (nx + x)$.



    It's as simple as that.






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    I presume that on the left-hand side, we actually have $|sin[(n + 1)x]|$, in which case we need only distribute $x$ within the argument of $sin$ to obtain the right-hand side of the equation.



    $((n + 1)x) = (nx + x)$.



    It's as simple as that.







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      @AtahualpaInca But it answers the question, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make sense to have a large answer on something this simple.
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      – Rivasa
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:21






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      @Atahualpa Before judging, please search the meta.mse site for discussions about the unfortunate growing number of "unanswered" questions, in part due to those who comment but do not answer.
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      – Namaste
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:25








    • 2




      $begingroup$
      @AtahualpaInca I don't dine on questions, sorry about that. Answering questions, at least for me, is not a matter of "competing" or "hunting" or "consuming". It's about helping, at least for me. You're going to make yourself very unhappy, and quickly so, if you view this site as a "game" or competition.
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      – Namaste
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:27








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      $begingroup$
      @AtahualpaInca I am curious, what do you think should be placed as an answer to a question like this? amWhy's answer seems to be exactly answering the question -- the entire point of an answer.
      $endgroup$
      – Deven Ware
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:46








    • 2




      $begingroup$
      @AtahualpaInca There have been numerous discussions about answering questions through comments; the purpose of comments are for clarification and short points, and should be considered ephemeral. In fact, it's discouraged to simply answer in a comment. Regardless, if you object to people giving short and brief answers to questions, then you ought to bring it up on meta, not here.
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      @AtahualpaInca But it answers the question, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make sense to have a large answer on something this simple.
      $endgroup$
      – Rivasa
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:21






    • 3




      $begingroup$
      @Atahualpa Before judging, please search the meta.mse site for discussions about the unfortunate growing number of "unanswered" questions, in part due to those who comment but do not answer.
      $endgroup$
      – Namaste
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:25








    • 2




      $begingroup$
      @AtahualpaInca I don't dine on questions, sorry about that. Answering questions, at least for me, is not a matter of "competing" or "hunting" or "consuming". It's about helping, at least for me. You're going to make yourself very unhappy, and quickly so, if you view this site as a "game" or competition.
      $endgroup$
      – Namaste
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:27








    • 2




      $begingroup$
      @AtahualpaInca I am curious, what do you think should be placed as an answer to a question like this? amWhy's answer seems to be exactly answering the question -- the entire point of an answer.
      $endgroup$
      – Deven Ware
      Dec 19 '13 at 22:46








    • 2




      $begingroup$
      @AtahualpaInca There have been numerous discussions about answering questions through comments; the purpose of comments are for clarification and short points, and should be considered ephemeral. In fact, it's discouraged to simply answer in a comment. Regardless, if you object to people giving short and brief answers to questions, then you ought to bring it up on meta, not here.
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    @AtahualpaInca But it answers the question, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make sense to have a large answer on something this simple.
    $endgroup$
    – Rivasa
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:21




    $begingroup$
    @AtahualpaInca But it answers the question, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make sense to have a large answer on something this simple.
    $endgroup$
    – Rivasa
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:21




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    @Atahualpa Before judging, please search the meta.mse site for discussions about the unfortunate growing number of "unanswered" questions, in part due to those who comment but do not answer.
    $endgroup$
    – Namaste
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:25






    $begingroup$
    @Atahualpa Before judging, please search the meta.mse site for discussions about the unfortunate growing number of "unanswered" questions, in part due to those who comment but do not answer.
    $endgroup$
    – Namaste
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:25






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    $begingroup$
    @AtahualpaInca I don't dine on questions, sorry about that. Answering questions, at least for me, is not a matter of "competing" or "hunting" or "consuming". It's about helping, at least for me. You're going to make yourself very unhappy, and quickly so, if you view this site as a "game" or competition.
    $endgroup$
    – Namaste
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:27






    $begingroup$
    @AtahualpaInca I don't dine on questions, sorry about that. Answering questions, at least for me, is not a matter of "competing" or "hunting" or "consuming". It's about helping, at least for me. You're going to make yourself very unhappy, and quickly so, if you view this site as a "game" or competition.
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    – Namaste
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:27






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    @AtahualpaInca I am curious, what do you think should be placed as an answer to a question like this? amWhy's answer seems to be exactly answering the question -- the entire point of an answer.
    $endgroup$
    – Deven Ware
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:46






    $begingroup$
    @AtahualpaInca I am curious, what do you think should be placed as an answer to a question like this? amWhy's answer seems to be exactly answering the question -- the entire point of an answer.
    $endgroup$
    – Deven Ware
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:46






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    $begingroup$
    @AtahualpaInca There have been numerous discussions about answering questions through comments; the purpose of comments are for clarification and short points, and should be considered ephemeral. In fact, it's discouraged to simply answer in a comment. Regardless, if you object to people giving short and brief answers to questions, then you ought to bring it up on meta, not here.
    $endgroup$
    – user61527
    Dec 19 '13 at 22:50




    $begingroup$
    @AtahualpaInca There have been numerous discussions about answering questions through comments; the purpose of comments are for clarification and short points, and should be considered ephemeral. In fact, it's discouraged to simply answer in a comment. Regardless, if you object to people giving short and brief answers to questions, then you ought to bring it up on meta, not here.
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    Just like the spacing between words in written text, the spacing around binary mathematical operators (such as $+$ or $-$) and unary operators (e.g. $sin$, $exp$, etc.) is critical in determining the meaning.



    As a general rule of mathematical typography, mathematical functions written as operators—that is, simply prefixed to the argument—are printed in roman type, followed by a thin space that precedes the argument. For example:$$sin x+sin y =2sintfrac12(x+y)sintfrac12(x-y),$$$$ln xy=ln x+ln y,qquadquad$$$$exp(x+y)=exp x+exp y.qquadqquad$$In the above examples, the typography makes the expressions completely unambiguous. Any additional parentheses would just add clutter, while the existing parentheses are needed.



    In the particular case of your question, we have the simple algebraic identity$$(n+1)x=nx+x.$$When applying the sine function to this quantity, we need no further parentheses on the left-hand side; but parentheses must be introduced on the right-hand side because otherwise it would read as $$sin nx+x,$$which is the sum of $sin nx$ and $x$.






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      Just like the spacing between words in written text, the spacing around binary mathematical operators (such as $+$ or $-$) and unary operators (e.g. $sin$, $exp$, etc.) is critical in determining the meaning.



      As a general rule of mathematical typography, mathematical functions written as operators—that is, simply prefixed to the argument—are printed in roman type, followed by a thin space that precedes the argument. For example:$$sin x+sin y =2sintfrac12(x+y)sintfrac12(x-y),$$$$ln xy=ln x+ln y,qquadquad$$$$exp(x+y)=exp x+exp y.qquadqquad$$In the above examples, the typography makes the expressions completely unambiguous. Any additional parentheses would just add clutter, while the existing parentheses are needed.



      In the particular case of your question, we have the simple algebraic identity$$(n+1)x=nx+x.$$When applying the sine function to this quantity, we need no further parentheses on the left-hand side; but parentheses must be introduced on the right-hand side because otherwise it would read as $$sin nx+x,$$which is the sum of $sin nx$ and $x$.






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        Just like the spacing between words in written text, the spacing around binary mathematical operators (such as $+$ or $-$) and unary operators (e.g. $sin$, $exp$, etc.) is critical in determining the meaning.



        As a general rule of mathematical typography, mathematical functions written as operators—that is, simply prefixed to the argument—are printed in roman type, followed by a thin space that precedes the argument. For example:$$sin x+sin y =2sintfrac12(x+y)sintfrac12(x-y),$$$$ln xy=ln x+ln y,qquadquad$$$$exp(x+y)=exp x+exp y.qquadqquad$$In the above examples, the typography makes the expressions completely unambiguous. Any additional parentheses would just add clutter, while the existing parentheses are needed.



        In the particular case of your question, we have the simple algebraic identity$$(n+1)x=nx+x.$$When applying the sine function to this quantity, we need no further parentheses on the left-hand side; but parentheses must be introduced on the right-hand side because otherwise it would read as $$sin nx+x,$$which is the sum of $sin nx$ and $x$.






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        Just like the spacing between words in written text, the spacing around binary mathematical operators (such as $+$ or $-$) and unary operators (e.g. $sin$, $exp$, etc.) is critical in determining the meaning.



        As a general rule of mathematical typography, mathematical functions written as operators—that is, simply prefixed to the argument—are printed in roman type, followed by a thin space that precedes the argument. For example:$$sin x+sin y =2sintfrac12(x+y)sintfrac12(x-y),$$$$ln xy=ln x+ln y,qquadquad$$$$exp(x+y)=exp x+exp y.qquadqquad$$In the above examples, the typography makes the expressions completely unambiguous. Any additional parentheses would just add clutter, while the existing parentheses are needed.



        In the particular case of your question, we have the simple algebraic identity$$(n+1)x=nx+x.$$When applying the sine function to this quantity, we need no further parentheses on the left-hand side; but parentheses must be introduced on the right-hand side because otherwise it would read as $$sin nx+x,$$which is the sum of $sin nx$ and $x$.







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