I am doing a problem which requires me to find the arclength of the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle. (The book calls it a 2 Dimensional Sphere but I hope that is a typo)
I start at the north pole $\theta=0^\circ$ and make the two legs at the end points ($\theta,\phi$) as $(\theta_0,0)$ and $(\theta_0,\frac{\pi}{2})$. The hypotenuse is now an arc of radius $R$ and angle \theta' so my arclength is R\theta'. Working back from the final answer, the result should be \theta' = \cos^{-1}\cos^2\theta_0 which I am unable to get.