Calculus 2 : Parametric Form

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Example Questions

Example Question #71 : Parametric Form

Given  and , what is  in terms of  (rectangular form)?

Possible Answers:

None of the above

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Given  and ,  let's solve both equations for :

Since both equations equal , let's set them equal to each other and solve for :

Example Question #72 : Parametric Form

Given  and , what is  in terms of  (rectangular form)?

Possible Answers:

None of the above

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Given  and ,  let's solve both equations for :

Since both equations equal , let's set them equal to each other and solve for :

 

 

 

Example Question #73 : Parametric Form

Given  and , what is  in terms of  (rectangular form)?

Possible Answers:

None of the above

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Given  and , let's solve both equations for :

Since both equations equal , let's set them equal to each other and solve for :

 

Example Question #74 : Parametric Form

Find dy/dx at the point corresponding to the given value of the parameter without eliminating the parameter:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for dy/dx for parametric equations is given as:

From the problem statement:

If we plug in t=3, into the above equations:

This is one of the answer choices.

Example Question #75 : Parametric Form

Find dy/dx at the point corresponding to the given value of the parameter without eliminating the parameter:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for dy/dx for parametric equations is given as:

From the problem statement:

If we plug in t=4, into the above equations:

This is one of the answer choices.

Example Question #7 : Parametric Form

Find dy/dx at the point corresponding to the given value of the parameter without eliminating the parameter:



Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for dy/dx for parametric equations is given as:

From the problem statement:

If we plug these into the above equation we end up with:

If we plug in our given value for t, we end up with:

This is one of the answer choices.

Example Question #81 : Parametric, Polar, And Vector

Convert the following parametric equation into rectangular form:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To convert from parametric to rectangular form, we must eliminate the parameter by finding t in terms of x or y:

Now, plug t into the equation for y:

Example Question #77 : Parametric Form

Given  and , what is  in terms of ?

Possible Answers:

None of the above

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Given  and ,  let's solve both equations for :

Since both equations equal , let's set them equal to each other and solve for :

Example Question #78 : Parametric Form

What is a way of parameterizing the circle ? (Assume ) There are many ways of doing this.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To see why the parametric equations

describe the circle

we do the following manipulation:

which means

or 

which describes the circle of radius .

Example Question #79 : Parametric Form

What is not a way of parameterizing the ellipse 

(Assume )

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The reason that the parametric equations

don't describe the ellipse

is because if do some algebraic manipulation, we get

which describes a different ellipse than

.

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