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TL;DR: Polar curves don’t give you dy/dx directly, but you can still find the slope of the tangent line. Convert to parametric form using x equals r cosine theta and y equals r sine theta, then apply the parametric derivative formula. The slope works out to r-prime sine theta plus r cosine theta, all divided […]
Finding the rate of change in polar functions involves a few steps. Let’s break it down:
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