"Hyperbolic curve" redirects here. For the geometric curve, seeHyperbola.
Inmathematics,hyperbolic functions are analogues of the ordinarytrigonometric functions, but defined using thehyperbola rather than thecircle. Just as the points(cost, sint) form acircle with a unit radius, the points(cosht, sinht) form the right half of theunit hyperbola. Also, similarly to how the derivatives ofsin(t) andcos(t) arecos(t) and–sin(t) respectively, the derivatives ofsinh(t) andcosh(t) arecosh(t) andsinh(t) respectively.
inverse hyperbolic sine "arsinh" (also denoted "sinh−1", "asinh" or sometimes "arcsinh")[9][10][11]
inverse hyperbolic cosine "arcosh" (also denoted "cosh−1", "acosh" or sometimes "arccosh")
inverse hyperbolic tangent "artanh" (also denoted "tanh−1", "atanh" or sometimes "arctanh")
inverse hyperbolic cotangent "arcoth" (also denoted "coth−1", "acoth" or sometimes "arccoth")
inverse hyperbolic secant "arsech" (also denoted "sech−1", "asech" or sometimes "arcsech")
inverse hyperbolic cosecant "arcsch" (also denoted "arcosech", "csch−1", "cosech−1","acsch", "acosech", or sometimes "arccsch" or "arccosech")
Aray through theunit hyperbolax2 −y2 = 1 at the point(cosha, sinha), wherea is twice the area between the ray, the hyperbola, and thex-axis. For points on the hyperbola below thex-axis, the area is considered negative (seeanimated version with comparison with the trigonometric (circular) functions).
Incomplex analysis, the hyperbolic functions arise when applying the ordinary sine and cosine functions to an imaginary angle. The hyperbolic sine and the hyperbolic cosine areentire functions. As a result, the other hyperbolic functions aremeromorphic in the whole complex plane.
The first known calculation of a hyperbolic trigonometry problem is attributed toGerardus Mercator when issuing theMercator map projection circa 1566. It requires tabulating solutions to a transcendental equation involving hyperbolic functions.[13]
Hyperbolic functions were formally introduced in 1757 byVincenzo Riccati.[14][13][15] Riccati usedSc. andCc. (sinus/cosinus circulare) to refer to circular functions andSh. andCh. (sinus/cosinus hyperbolico) to refer to hyperbolic functions.[14] As early as 1759,Daviet de Foncenex showed the interchangeability of the trigonometric and hyperbolic functions using the imaginary unit and extendedde Moivre's formula to hyperbolic functions.[15][14]
During the 1760s,Johann Heinrich Lambert systematized the use functions and provided exponential expressions in various publications.[14][15] Lambert credited Riccati for the terminology and names of the functions, but altered the abbreviations to those used today.[15][16]
The hyperbolic functions may be defined as solutions ofdifferential equations: The hyperbolic sine and cosine are the solution(s,c) of the systemwith the initial conditions The initial conditions make the solution unique; without them any pair of functions would be a solution.
sinh(x) andcosh(x) are also the unique solution of the equationf ″(x) =f (x),such thatf (0) = 1,f ′(0) = 0 for the hyperbolic cosine, andf (0) = 0,f ′(0) = 1 for the hyperbolic sine.
It can be shown that thearea under the curve of the hyperbolic cosine (over a finite interval) is always equal to thearc length corresponding to that interval:[17]
The hyperbolic functions satisfy many identities, all of them similar in form to thetrigonometric identities. In fact,Osborn's rule[20] states that one can convert any trigonometric identity (up to but not including sinhs or implied sinhs of 4th degree) for,, or and into a hyperbolic identity, by:
expanding it completely in terms of integral powers of sines and cosines,
changing sine to sinh and cosine to cosh, and
switching the sign of every term containing a product of two sinhs.
The following series are followed by a description of a subset of theirdomain of convergence, where the series is convergent and its sum equals the function.
Circle and hyperbola tangent at (1,1) display geometry of circular functions in terms ofcircular sector areau and hyperbolic functions depending onhyperbolic sector areau.
Since thearea of a circular sector with radiusr and angleu (in radians) isr2u/2, it will be equal tou whenr =√2. In the diagram, such a circle is tangent to the hyperbolaxy = 1 at (1,1). The yellow sector depicts an area and angle magnitude. Similarly, the yellow and red regions together depict ahyperbolic sector with area corresponding to hyperbolic angle magnitude.
The legs of the tworight triangles with hypotenuse on the ray defining the angles are of length√2 times the circular and hyperbolic functions.
TheGudermannian function gives a direct relationship between the circular functions and the hyperbolic functions that does not involve complex numbers.
The graph of the functiona cosh(x/a) is thecatenary, the curve formed by a uniform flexible chain, hanging freely between two fixed points under uniform gravity.
Since theexponential function can be defined for anycomplex argument, we can also extend the definitions of the hyperbolic functions to complex arguments. The functionssinhz andcoshz are thenholomorphic.
Relationships to ordinary trigonometric functions are given byEuler's formula for complex numbers:so:
Thus, hyperbolic functions areperiodic with respect to the imaginary component, with period ( for hyperbolic tangent and cotangent).
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