Section 9.5 Parametric Curves
Exercises Exercises
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Each set of parametric equations below describes the path of a particle that moves along the circle in some manner. Match each set of parametric equations to the path that it describes.
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If the motion of a particle whose position at time is given by sketch a graph of the resulting motion and use your graph to answer the following questions:
(a) The slope of the graph at is
(enter undef if the slope is not defined)
(b) At this point the particle is moving
- neither left nor right
- to the left
- to the right
and
- neither up nor down
- up
- down
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(c) The slope of the graph at is
(enter undef if the slope is not defined)
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(b) Using "less than" and "greater than" notation, list the -interval where the curve is concave upward.
Use upper-case "INF" for positive infinity and upper-case "NINF" for negative infinity. If the curve is never concave upward, type an upper-case "N" in the answer field.
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