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Hi - I've attached an explanation from my Further Maths book which I'm unsure about.
Methods 1 & 2 I'm fine with, but as for Method 3 I'm not sure what exactly this proves? I'm fine with OPA being a right-angled triangle but from the line "Using trigonometry, r = 10cos(theta) as required...." onwards I'm not sure what's going on?
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Edit: I've tried reuploading but the website keeps rotating the images
Methods 1 & 2 I'm fine with, but as for Method 3 I'm not sure what exactly this proves? I'm fine with OPA being a right-angled triangle but from the line "Using trigonometry, r = 10cos(theta) as required...." onwards I'm not sure what's going on?
Can anyone help?
Edit: I've tried reuploading but the website keeps rotating the images
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(Original post by beachpanda)
Hi - I've attached an explanation from my Further Maths book which I'm unsure about.
Methods 1 & 2 I'm fine with, but as for Method 3 I'm not sure what exactly this proves? I'm fine with OPA being a right-angled triangle but from the line "Using trigonometry, r = 10cos(theta) as required...." onwards I'm not sure what's going on?
Can anyone help?
Edit: I've tried reuploading but the website keeps rotating the images
Hi - I've attached an explanation from my Further Maths book which I'm unsure about.
Methods 1 & 2 I'm fine with, but as for Method 3 I'm not sure what exactly this proves? I'm fine with OPA being a right-angled triangle but from the line "Using trigonometry, r = 10cos(theta) as required...." onwards I'm not sure what's going on?
Can anyone help?
Edit: I've tried reuploading but the website keeps rotating the images
In method 3 you do the same thing from a geometrical perspective.
It's not very clear what they intend to do.
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Hi, in method 2 you convert from polar form to Cartesian form and get the equation of the circle.
In method 3 you do the same thing from a geometrical perspective.
It's not very clear what they intend to do.
Hi, in method 2 you convert from polar form to Cartesian form and get the equation of the circle.
In method 3 you do the same thing from a geometrical perspective.
It's not very clear what they intend to do.
Anyone able to help?
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Yeah I'm not really sure either. I get the geometry but not sure what's happening after that.
Anyone able to help?
Yeah I'm not really sure either. I get the geometry but not sure what's happening after that.
Anyone able to help?
They're just showing you that if you start off with a circle as described but choose your origin of (polar) coordinates to be the point on the left edge of the circumference, then as a point moves round the circle it is always true that
with the choice of r and 
that they have defined.
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Yeah I'm not really sure either. I get the geometry but not sure what's happening after that.
Anyone able to help?
Yeah I'm not really sure either. I get the geometry but not sure what's happening after that.
Anyone able to help?
It's better if you present the question here and I can have a look at.
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It's just a wordy geometrical argument rather than an actual algebraic proof.
They're just showing you that if you start off with a circle as described but choose your origin of (polar) coordinates to be the point on the left edge of the circumference, then as a point moves round the circle it is always true that with the choice of r and that they have defined.
It's just a wordy geometrical argument rather than an actual algebraic proof.
They're just showing you that if you start off with a circle as described but choose your origin of (polar) coordinates to be the point on the left edge of the circumference, then as a point moves round the circle it is always true that
with the choice of r and that they have defined.
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