Graphing in Polar Coordinates

Graphing in polar coordinates is still a bit clunky in GeoGebra 4, so this sketch does a bit of the clunky work for the student by parameterizing the polar equation.

Enter the function of the radius in terms of theta as r(t), and then manually progress t or press play to see the graph.

See the many types of polar curves to explore at Wolfram Mathworld: http://bit.ly/rzsnMe (shortened)
or http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/PolarCurves.html

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Find more sketches at mathhombre.blogspot.com


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