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4.3: Chapter 4 Review Exercises

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Exercises 1 - 4

True or False? Justify your answer with a proof or a counterexample.

  1. The rectangular coordinates of the point (4,5π6) are (23,2).
  2. The equations x=cosh(3t),y=2sinh(3t) represent a hyperbola.
Answer
True
  1. The arc length of the spiral given by r=θ2 for 0θ3π is 94π3 units.
  2. Given x=f(t) and y=g(t), if dxdy=dydx, then f(t)=g(t)+C, where C is a constant.
Answer
False. Imagine y=t+1,x=t+1.

Exercises 5 -8

Sketch the parametric curve and eliminate the parameter to find the Cartesian equation of the curve.

  1. x=1+t,y=t21,1t1
  2. x=et,y=1e3t,0t1
Answer

y=1x3

Graph of a curve starting at (1, 0) and decreasing into the fourth quadrant.

  1. x=sinθ,y=1cscθ,0θ2π
  2. x=4cosϕ,y=1sinϕ,0ϕ2π
Answer

x216+(y1)2=1

Graph of an ellipse with center (0, 1), major axis horizontal and of length 8, and minor axis of length 2.

  1. Find the equation of the tangent line to the given curve. Graph both the function and its tangent line.

x=ln(t),y=t21,t=1

  1. Find dydx,dxdy, and d2xdy2 of y=(2+et),x=1sint
  1. Find the area of the region.

x=t2,y=ln(t),0te

Answer
e22 units2
  1. Find the arc length of the curve over the given interval.

x=3t+4,y=9t2,0t3

Answer
910 units

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