Polar Equations of Conics

[@bigboydoplerzone6231]

Thank you so much Thaddeus. This has been pretty helpful to me. God Bless You! From UGANDA!

[@killpoe]

This made more sense in 5 min than my text book did in the whole section jeez! Why can't text books be written in lay terms instead of mathematician? Thank you!!!

[@fractad]

@gjmottet, Never give up hope! This is a really tough topic. One shortcut you can do: plug in 0, pi, pi/2, and 3pi/2 for theta, and you have all of the graph's intercepts.

[@fractad]

@piguyproductions You're welcome! Thanks for the feedback.

[@fractad]

@AddictUploader , You're very welcome

[@TheDtbean]

(1, 3pi/2) means that you go 1 unit in the direction of 3pi/2 radians. 3pi/2 is straight down from the origin, so you just go 1 unit in that direction. the same is true for (9,3pi/2)

[@fractad]

@QuackImaCow , I'm glad this saved you some time on your homework! Good luck on the rest of the year.

[@fractad]

You would just factor out the lead number from all terms in the denominator, and divide it into the numerator value. Example: 3/(2-6sinx) = (3/2)/(1-3sinx).

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great! ❤

[@kittystolemycookie94]

I have a question. What if the 1 in the denominator is something other than a 1, how would you do a problem like that?

[@piguyproductions]

Ur literally awesome. Thanks so much!!!!!! So helpful

[@oliverye55]

did you switch c and a at 9:25?

[@mikeymarshful]

You saved me man...

[@mrhyphy007]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@fractad]

@mikeymarshful I'm glad I could help you out!

[@katianovakk]

So when you say the focus is at the pole you really mean it's at the origin, right?

[@fractad]

That's right! In polar coordinates, though, we refer to a pole and a polar axis, instead of an origin.

[@darkzero2005]

helpful

[@yashodalaxmi.r4453]

thank u

[@EHBRod13]

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[@mikeymarshful]

@fractad XD