Trig Help: Identifying Challenges & Solutions

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what should I care of? what could cause problems to me?
 
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the principal value of arcsine is not a full inverse of sine. Arcsine returns an angle in [-pi/2,pi/2] but x can be any angle. The fact that you book reminded you of is equivalent to saying that sin(x)=sin(y) does not imply that x=y. Take x=0 and y=2*pi for example.