Why are sines and cosines needed?

Why are sines and cosines needed? Really, interesting question. In comments to the trigonometric circle of sines and cosines such question appeared:

where will sin and cos be useful in life?
p.s why are they needed sines cosines?

Let us will call a spade a spade. To swingeing majority from you they will be never useful. Unless, when will your children go out into school and will begin to study trigonometric functions, they too will put question you "Why are sines and cosines needed?" and, in addition, will ask to explain, what is it.

Money we use every day already not alone thousand years and perfectly we do without every sines, cosines and other elegant mathematical pieces. I assure you, and through millions of years in the count of money nothing will change. Not because we are such dull, and because such are mathematical properties of money : it is impossible to increase roubles on roubles and with money in the second degree to hurry in a motor show to buy "Lamborghini".

On a kitchen, in culinary recipes, you will meet neither sines nor cosines too. If to give a glance soberly on our everyday life, then all our everyday mathematics remains somewhere at the level of knowledge of Ancient Greece. We are enough with a head.

So why are sines and cosines needed? As compared to Ancient Greece, we have very much different pieces about that ancient Greeks could not dream even today. Even their Gods did not ride on machines, did not use mobile communication, did not communicate on the Internet. But we have all of it and we use this constantly. Did all this extraordinary riches undertake from where? He was created by us. At first scientists did the scientific opening. Then engineers, on the basis of done by the scientists of opening, created every useful things. We use these things today, not having not the least concept about that is into these things and what scientific laws are fixed in basis of their work. So, if there were not sines and cosines, there would not be all these useful things.

Sines and cosines are used most effectively scientists and engineers. I will not say that they continuously trigonometric functions are used only. No, they use them rarely, but well-aimed. Sines and cosines often are in the formulas of different calculations an engineer or scientific.

Often with sines and cosines it is necessary to clash to the geodesists. They have the special instruments for an exact goniometry. Through sines and cosines corners can be converted into lengths or coordinates of points on an earth surface.

The teachers of mathematics on the sort of the duties constantly deal with trigonometric functions. This year they told about sines and cosines to you, the next year the teachers of mathematics will tell the same to other students. Such for them work - to teach.

Schoolchildren and students study trigonometric functions on the lessons of mathematics. Personally I got through tortures sines and cosines at school, техникуме, institute.

Adults sometimes engage in sines and cosines then, when their toschoolchildren need a help at preparation of homeworks.

All! Sines and cosines do not need other generally! In everyday life most people they are not used hardly ever. If I wrong, remedy me.

So why then generally to teach these sines and cosines? Well, firstly, such is the school program. Secondly, if you in life may need apply a sine or cosine, you know already, what is it and where it is needed to search information about them. The knowledge gained at school will fully have you, what is independent in everything to understand.

So what such the sines, cosines and other trigonometric functions? It is a mathematical instrument it is needed that to be able to use. That we this instrument we do not use hardly ever, talks not that studying them is not necessary, and that efficiency of application of the knowledge gained by us is practically equal to the zero. But it is quite another theme already.