File:Folium Of Descartes.svg

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Description

English: A graph of the Folium of Descartes, given by polar equation

$r = \frac{3 a \sin \theta \cos \theta}{\sin^3 \theta + \cos^3 \theta }.$

The parameter a = 1 in this graph.

Date

27 February 2009

Source

Own work

Author

Inductiveload

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Mathematica Code

a = 1;
PolarPlot[3 a Sin[theta] Cos[theta]/(Sin[theta]^3 + Cos[theta]^3),
 {theta, 0, Pi},
 PlotRange -> {{-2.5, 2.5}, {-2.5, 2.5}}]

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