To illustrate the fact that the numbers we get for length do not depend on the way we parametrize our curves (except for the mild restrictions pre-venting doubling back mentioned earlier), calculate the length of the semicircle y = sqrt(1 - x2) with these two different parametri-zations: a. x = cos 2t, y = sin 2t, 0<=t<=pai/2. b. x = sin pt, y = cos pt, -1/2<=t<=1/2.

Algebra & Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry
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Chapter11: Topics From Analytic Geometry
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To illustrate the fact that the numbers we get for length do not depend on the way we parametrize our curves (except for the mild restrictions pre-venting doubling back mentioned earlier), calculate the length of the semicircle y = sqrt(1 - x2) with these two different parametri-zations:

a. x = cos 2t, y = sin 2t, 0<=t<=pai/2.

b. x = sin pt, y = cos pt, -1/2<=t<=1/2.

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