Trig PROJECT

Part-1
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Note: Please use this word document to save your own work.
Note-1: Before downloading any GeoGebra file make sure that GeoGebra software has been
installed to your computer correctly.
Note-2: Please type your answer in blue.
Note-3: Do not use your calculator for this part of the project as well

EXPLORING THE CONCEPT:

Open the Rosecurve(1).ggb file which is located in BlackBoard Trig PROJECT Project
Models GeoGebra Data File GeoGebra Data.
Do the following:
Step 1. Do the following adjustment with the sliders so that, a = 2, h = 2, b = 0, and c = 0 and
then change the value of t from 0 to 360. Answer the followings;
a) Which directions do A and C points move as t changes from 0 to 360?
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b) Now change value of a from 1 to 5. What do you see?

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Step 2. Set a = 2. Then change the value of h from 1 to 2, to 3, ... , to 10, copy the value of h below,
and write the number of petals and the function r(x) for each value of h. (r(x) is in grey on the last line
displayed in the left side bar).
h

Number of petals

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Answer the following questions;

a) What is the corresponding value of h in the function r(x)?
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b) Write function r(x) using coefficient a and h.
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c) What is the relationship between h and number of petals?

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d) Can we create a rose curve with 6 or 10 petals? Why or Why not?

Answer:

r(x)

Step 3. Now set a = 1 and c = 1. As the value of h change from 1 to 5, copy the value of h, number of
petals and the function r(x) on the left hand side bar.
h

Number of petals or shape

r(x)

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Now answer the following questions;

a) What is the corresponding value of h in the function r(x)? Write function r(x) using coefficient
a, c and h.
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b) What is the relationship between h and number of petals?

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e) Make your guess about the function that generates 6 or 10 petals. Check your conjecture by
changing the value of h. Is the relationship between h and the number of petals the same as in
step 2. Copy the graph of the 6-petals rose.
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Step 4: Set a = 0, c =0 and b = 2. Do step 2 and 3 replace a by b and h by k. Compare the graph when
a=0, b = 1, c = 1 and k = 6 with the graph you copy on Step 3.
k

Number of petals or shape

r(x)

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Step 5: Now set a =2, c = 1, b=0, h=2, k = 1. Change the value of h from 1-10. Note that the curve
will have big petal(s) and small loop(s) for reach value of h. For each case, record the number of petals
and how the small loops and big petals are displayed in the graph.
Answer:
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Step 6: Use the information from Step 2-5, change the value of a, b, h, k, and c to get the curves as
shown below.
What equation you got for Graph-1:
What equation you got for Graph-2:
What equation you got for Graph-3:
What equation you got for Graph-4:

Hint: For the first three curves, set c = 1. Record the function r(x) for each graph