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Lecture Notes for 120 - UCLA Department of Mathematics

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1.1. CURVES 8<br />

as we then get q (✓) =R (cos (✓ + ') , sin (✓ + ')) with ✓ being the angle to the<br />

x-axis. Yet a further scaling is possible as long as we exclude the origin<br />

apple<br />

1<br />

p<br />

x2 + y 2<br />

apple dx<br />

dt<br />

dy<br />

dt<br />

This time the solutions are given by<br />

✓ ✓ ◆ ✓ ◆◆<br />

✓ + ' ✓ + '<br />

q (✓) =R cos , sin<br />

R<br />

R<br />

and we have to assume that R>0.<br />

Example 1.1.2. Consider<br />

=<br />

F (x, y) =x 2<br />

y<br />

x<br />

y 2 = c<br />

When c 6= 0the solution set consists <strong>of</strong> two hyperbolas. They’ll be separated by<br />

the y-axis when c>0 and by the x-axis when c0 and in the third quadrant when a

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