This is not a graded question despite the due date -- it is supplemental work to help us learn the lecture material (my teacher just gave an assignment she was using for another class).

Would you help me with #6? -- I'm unsure on how to proceed with this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Gabriel Sheets
Transcribed Image Text:Take home Quiz 1 - Due 3/1/2021 at 11 am The Witch of Agnesi Many plane curves in mathematics are named after the people who first investigated them, like the folium of Descartes or the spiral of Archimedes. However, perhaps the strangest name for a curve is the witch of Agnesi. Why a witch? Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) was one of the few recognized women mathenaticians of eighteenth-century Italy. She wrote a popular book on analytic geometry, published in 1748, which included an interesting curve that had been studied by Fermat in 1630. The mathematician Guido Grandi showed in 1703 how to construct this curve, which he later called the "versoria," a Latin term for a rope used in sailing. Agnesi used the Italian term for this rope, "versiera," but in Latin, this same word means a "female goblin." When Agnesi's book was translated into English in 1801, the translator used the term "witch" for the curve, instead of rope. The name "witch of Agnesi" has stuck ever since. The witch of Agnesi is a curve defined as follows: Start with a circle of radius a so that the points (0, 0) and (0, 2a) are points on the circle (Figure 1.12). Let O denote the origin. Choose any other point A on the circle, and draw the secant line OA, Let B denote the point at which the line OA intersects the horizontal line through (0, 2a). The vertical line through B intersects the horizontal line through A at the point P. As the point A varies, the path that the point P travels is the witch of Agnesi curve for the given circle. Witch of Agnesi curves have applications in physics, including modeling water waves and distributions of spectral lines. In probability theory, the curve describes the probability density function of the Cauchy distribution. In this project you will parameterize these curves. (0, 2a) elxiy) Figure 1.12 As the point A moves around the circle, the point P traces out the witch of Agnesi curve for the given circle. 1. On the figure, label the following points, lengths, and angle: a. Cis the point on the x-axis with the same x-coordinate as A. b. x is the x-coordinate of P, and y is the y-coordinate of P. C. E is the point (0, a). d. Fis the point on the line segment OA such that the line segment EF is perpendicular to the line segment OA. e. b is the distance from O to F. f. cis the distance from F to A. g. dis the distance from O to B. h. e is the measure of angle ZCOA. 1
Transcribed Image Text:2. Show that d 2a sin o Note that x d cos 0. Show that 2a cot 0, When you do das, yo will hue parametetd de X-coordinate of the curve with respect to 6. If you can get a similar equation for y, you will hve garatered 3. the curve. In terms of 0, what is the angle ZEOA? E-0 or 40-e 4. Show that b+e= 2a cos(-0) 5. 6. Show that y 2a cos(-0)sin 0. 7. Show that y 2a sin0. You have now parameterized the y-coordinate of the curve with respect so 6. 8. Conclude that a parameterization of the given witch curve is x= 2a cot 0, y = 2a sin 6,-o <8< 0o. 9. Use your parameterization to show that the given witch curve is the graph of the function f(x) = The goal of this project is to parameterize the witch using e as a parameter. To do this, write equations for x and y in terms of only 0. You may work in groups of up to 3. I will provide a dropbox in Canvas for this. 2

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This is not a graded question despite the due date -- it is supplemental work to help us learn the lecture material (my teacher just gave an assignment she was using for another class).

Would you help me with #6? -- I'm unsure on how to proceed with this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Gabriel Sheets

Take home Quiz 1 - Due 3/1/2021 at 11 am
The Witch of Agnesi
Many plane curves in mathematics are named after the people who first investigated them, like the folium of Descartes
or the spiral of Archimedes. However, perhaps the strangest name for a curve is the witch of Agnesi. Why a witch?
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) was one of the few recognized women mathenaticians of eighteenth-century Italy.
She wrote a popular book on analytic geometry, published in 1748, which included an interesting curve that had been
studied by Fermat in 1630. The mathematician Guido Grandi showed in 1703 how to construct this curve, which he
later called the "versoria," a Latin term for a rope used in sailing. Agnesi used the Italian term for this rope, "versiera,"
but in Latin, this same word means a "female goblin." When Agnesi's book was translated into English in 1801, the
translator used the term "witch" for the curve, instead of rope. The name "witch of Agnesi" has stuck ever since.
The witch of Agnesi is a curve defined as follows: Start with a circle of radius a so that the points (0, 0) and (0, 2a)
are points on the circle (Figure 1.12). Let O denote the origin. Choose any other point A on the circle, and draw the
secant line OA, Let B denote the point at which the line OA intersects the horizontal line through (0, 2a). The vertical
line through B intersects the horizontal line through A at the point P. As the point A varies, the path that the point P
travels is the witch of Agnesi curve for the given circle.
Witch of Agnesi curves have applications in physics, including modeling water waves and distributions of spectral
lines. In probability theory, the curve describes the probability density function of the Cauchy distribution. In this
project you will parameterize these curves.
(0, 2a)
elxiy)
Figure 1.12 As the point A moves around the circle, the point P traces out the witch of
Agnesi curve for the given circle.
1. On the figure, label the following points, lengths, and angle:
a. Cis the point on the x-axis with the same x-coordinate as A.
b. x is the x-coordinate of P, and y is the y-coordinate of P.
C. E is the point (0, a).
d. Fis the point on the line segment OA such that the line segment EF is perpendicular to the line segment
OA.
e.
b is the distance from O to F.
f. cis the distance from F to A.
g. dis the distance from O to B.
h.
e is the measure of angle ZCOA.
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2. Show that d 2a
sin o
Note that x d cos 0. Show that 2a cot 0, When you do das, yo will hue parametetd de
X-coordinate of the curve with respect to 6. If you can get a similar equation for y, you will hve garatered
3.
the curve.
In terms of 0, what is the angle ZEOA?
E-0 or 40-e
4.
Show that b+e= 2a cos(-0)
5.
6. Show that y 2a cos(-0)sin 0.
7. Show that y 2a sin0. You have now parameterized the y-coordinate of the curve with respect so 6.
8. Conclude that a parameterization of the given witch curve is
x= 2a cot 0, y = 2a sin 6,-o <8< 0o.
9.
Use your parameterization to show that the given witch curve is the graph of the function f(x) =
The goal of this project is to parameterize the witch using e as a parameter. To do this,
write equations for x and y in terms of only 0.
You may work in groups of up to 3. I will provide a dropbox in Canvas for this.
2

Accepted Answer

Since, you have raised query regarding problem #6, I am assuming that you have solved problems 1-5.…

con(-0) ain 0. 6. Show that y 2a cOs