What does the graph of r=cosθ such that 0θ360 look like?

1 Answer
Dec 28, 2014

I used Excel to plot your graph and I got:

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In the first two columns you have for each angle θ (in radians but it is the same) between 0 and 2π the corresponding value of r, calculated as:
r=cos(θ)

The next two columns contain the corresponding values of x and y to plot your equation on a rectangular coordinate system x,y.

To obtain the values in the x and y columns you must remember the relationship between polar (first two columns) and rectangular (second two columns) coordinates:

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(hope it helped)