Skip to main content

Menu

Navigation

More options

Style variation

Contact us

Draw a diagram, specify intercepts

Thread starter Vitani11
Start date Jan 20, 2017
Tags

Diagram

Join the discussion

Registration is free. Start your own thread to ask a follow-up.

2 replies · 1K views

Vitani11

Thread starter
Jan 20, 2017

#1

Homework Statement

Draw a diagram of the orbit and specify its x and y intercepts. Describe its shape.

r = 2bsin(wt)x̂ + bcos(wt)ŷ

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution

Heres my picture. Aren't the intercepts just 2b for x and b for y?

Physics news on Phys.org

Discussion

haruspex

Science Advisor

Homework Helper

Insights Author

Gold Member

Jan 20, 2017

#2

Vitani11 said:

Heres my picture. Aren't the intercepts just 2b for x and b for y?

Those certainly are intercepts. Any more?
You have not drawn the orbit, only one point of it.

Vitani11

Jan 21, 2017

#3

Okay, I got it. Thanks.

Top