Assignment 12

Investigation 2

Creating Graphs of Parametric Equations on Spreadsheets


The spreadsheet can be used to display the graph of parametric equations. One way is to place an initial value of the parameter t in cell A1 and increment t in the A column. Then if we put the formula for the x-coordinate, in B1 and the y-coordinate in C1, we can fill down to get the appropriate range of t and then graph. Below are some graphs of parametric equations using problems from assignment 10.

Lets start with the following equation.

Click HERE to see the Excel file that was used to create this graph.

If we take another look at our graph of the equation from Assignment 10, we see the two graphs are the same.

 

 

Click HERE to see the Excel file that was used to create this graph.

Again if we take another look at our graph of the equation from Assignment 10, we see the two graphs are the same.


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