We prove the following convexity property of the function \(\begin{aligned} R(c,x;t)= \frac{\sin t}{(\cos t)^c} \frac{x^c - (\cos t)^c}{x-\cos t}. \end{aligned}\) Let \(c\in \mathbb {R}{\setminus } \{0\}\) . The inequality \(\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial ^2}{\partial t^2} R(c,x;t)\ge 0 \end{aligned}\) holds for all \(x\in (0,1]\) and \(t\in (0,\pi /2)\) if and only if \(c\in [-2,-1]\cup (0,\infty )\) . This result settles a conjecture of M. Revers (1998).