Graphing in Polar Coordinates
- Author:
- John Golden
- Topic:
- Coordinates, Function Graph
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