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Example 7: The unit circle

The parametric curve or trajectory for these parametric equations is the unit circle:

\begin{displaymath}
\left.
\begin{array}{lclcl}
x &=& f(t) &=& \cos t\\
y &=& g(t) &=& \sin t\\
\end{array}\right\}\quad 0\leq t\leq 2\pi
\end{displaymath}

Image parametric_circle


The only difference between this example and example 1 is that we let $ t$ range from 0 to $ 2\pi$ , which produces the full unit circle.



gene quinn 2006-09-10