How do you find the parametric equation of a parabola?
1 Answer
If we have a parabola defined as
In fact, any function will have this trivial solution.
It is more useful to parameterize relations or implicit equations because once parameterized, they become explicit functions.
For instance a circle can be defined as:
When you try to define the circle explicitly, you get:
When parameterizing a circle, we have:
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