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Polar Coordinates Practice

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Polar Coordinates Practice

The document is a corrective assignment focused on parametric equations, polar coordinates, and vector-valued functions. It includes various mathematical problems requiring calculations of lengths, areas, slopes, and vector functions. Answers to the problems are provided at the end of the document.

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Corrective Assignment

Name: _______________________________ Date:_______________


Unit 9 CA – Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, and Vector‐
Valued Functions
1. What is the length of the curved defined by the parametric equations 𝑥 𝑡 9 cos 𝑡 and 𝑦 𝑡 9 sin 𝑡 for the
interval 0 𝑡 2𝜋?

2. Calculator active. Find the area of the region inside the circle 𝑟 1 and outside the cardiod 𝑟 1 cos 𝜃.

3. If 𝑥 𝑡 2𝑡 and 𝑦 𝑡 𝑡 𝑡, what is in terms of 𝑡?

4. The position of a remote-controlled vehicle moving along a flat surface at time 𝑡 is given by 𝑥 𝑡 , 𝑦 𝑡 , with
velocity vector 𝑣 𝑡 〈3𝑡 , 2𝑡〉 for 0 𝑡 3. Both 𝑥 𝑡 and 𝑦 𝑡 are measured in meters, and time 𝑡 is in
seconds. When 𝑡 0, the remote-controlled vehicle is at the point 1, 2 .

a. Find the acceleration vector of the remote-controlled vehicle when 𝑡 2.

b. Find the position of the remote-controlled vehicle when 𝑡 3.

5. Which of the following gives the length of the path described by the parametric equations 𝑥 2𝑒 and
𝑦 3𝑡 𝑡 from 0 𝑡 1?

A. 12𝑒 6𝑡 1 𝑑𝑡 B. 4𝑒 6𝑡 1 𝑑𝑡

C. √4𝑒 9𝑡 𝑡 𝑑𝑡 D. 36𝑒 6𝑡 1 𝑑𝑡
6. Calculator active. A polar curve is given by 𝑟 . What angle 𝜃 corresponds on the curve with a 𝑦-
coordinate of 1?

7. If 𝑓 is a vector-valued function defined by 〈𝑡𝑒 , 2𝑡 𝑒 〉 then 𝑓 1 ?

8. Calculator active. Find the area of the region common to the two regions bounded by the curves 𝑟 6 cos 𝜃
and 𝑟 2 2 cos 𝜃.

9. Find the vector-valued function 𝑓 𝑡 that satisfies the initial conditions 𝑓 0 〈3, 0〉, and
𝑓′ 𝑡 〈4 sin , 2 cos 2𝑡〉.

10. If 𝑥 7 cos 𝜃 and 𝑦 7 sin 𝜃, find the slope and the concavity at 𝜃 .

11. Calculator active. At time 𝑡 0, a particle moving in the 𝑥𝑦-plane has velocity vector given by
𝑣 𝑡 〈9𝑡 , 𝑒 〉. If the particle is at point 3, 4 at time 𝑡 0, how far is the particle from the origin at time
𝑡 2?

12. Find the slope of the tangent line to the polar curve 𝑟 2 cos 𝜃 1 at the point where 𝜃 .
13. Find the slope of the tangent line to the curve defined parametrically by 𝑥 𝑡 2 cos 𝑡 and 𝑦 𝑡 3 sin 𝑡 at
𝑡 .

14. Calculator active. The graph shows the polar curve 𝑟 3 𝜃 for 0 𝜃 𝜋. What is the area of the
region bounded by the curve and the 𝑥-axis?

15. At time 𝑡, 0 𝑡 2𝜋, the position of a particle moving along a path in the 𝑥𝑦-plane is given by the vector-
valued function, 𝑓 𝑡 〈cos 2𝑡 , sin 4𝑡〉. Find the slope of the path of the particle at time 𝑡 .

16. Find an equation for the line tangent to the curve given by the parametric equations 𝑥 𝑡 𝑡 1 and
𝑦 𝑡 𝑡 𝑡 1, when 𝑡 2.

17. Calculator active. Find the total area enclose by the inner loop of the polar curve 𝑟 4 5 sin 𝜃, shown in
the figure.

Answers to Unit 9 Corrective Assignment


4a. 〈12, 2〉
1. 18𝜋 2. 1.215 or 2 3. 𝑡 5. D
4b. 〈28, 11〉
6. 𝜃 5.435 or 𝜃 3.990 7. 〈3𝑒, 14𝑒〉 8. 15.708 or 5𝜋 9. 〈 8 cos 11, sin 2𝑡〉

10. Slope: 1, Concave Down 11. 28.930 12. 2 13.

14. 4.500 15. 2 16. 𝑦 𝑥 17. 0.340

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