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Taylor Polynomial Approximations in Polar Coordinates Sheldon P Taylor Polynomial Approximations in Polar Coordinates Sheldon P. Gordon The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Sep., 1993), pp. 325-330. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0746-8342%28199309%2924%3A4%3C325%3ATPAIPC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M The College Mathematics Journal is currently published by Mathematical Association of America. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/maa.html. 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He is co-editor of Statistics for the Twenty-First Century published in the MAA Notes series. His primary inter- ests concern the implications of technology on the entire mathe- matics curriculum and the place of applications in that curricu- lum. One of the major features of many of the calculus reform projects currently being conducted, including the Harvard Calculus Project, is a renewed emphasis on Taylor polynomial approximations [I]. Graphics software and graphing calculators allow students to explore the concept of such approximations visually and so come to a much deeper understanding of the process of approximation of one function by another. We will consider a natural extension of these ideas and attempt to approximate a curve given in polar coordinates using a Taylor polynomial. Suppose we begin naively by considering a polar function r =f(8) in the neighborhood of a point P(ro,a) and define the linear approximation to the function as the tangent line at that point. As is shown in most calculus texts, the slope of the tangent line to a polar curve is given by Therefore, the equation of the tangent line to the polar curve at the point P is given in polar coordinates by r sin 6' - r, sin a = m(r cos 6' - rocos a) so that r,(sin a - rn cos a) r = ' sin 8 - rn cos 8 We invite those readers who feel somewhat masochistic to continue this process to determine the polar equation for the approximating parabola and the corre- sponding higher degree polynomials. You will see that this naive approach is not particularly fruitful. Rather, it is necessary to re-interpret the idea of a Taylor polynomial approximation to reflect the circular symmetries that naturally arise in equations given in polar coordinates. First, the constant approximation to f(8), r =f(a) = r,, is a circle of radius r, centered at the pole. Next, the first-order approximation, is a translation and rotation of the standard Archimedean spiral r = a8. This VOL. 24, NO. 4, SEPTEMBER 1993 325 "linear" approximation bends along with the original curve and so should be a reasonably accurate approximation to the curve for points near 0 =a. In a similar way, the quadratic approximation, Y =f((~)+f1(~)(e -a) +flya)(e -a)2/2 is also a counter-clockwise spiral. Notice that the sign of f"(a) does not affect the counter-clockwise unrolling of the spiral as 0 increases. However, the constant and "linear" terms may affect the overall spiral behavior when 0 is close to a in the sense that the spiral may not unroll in a monotonically increasing manner. Clearly, if we continue this process, the Taylor polynomial approximation in polar coordinates is a linear combination of terms of the form (8 - a)". Each such term is a spiral opening in the counter-clockwise direction. However, since a Taylor polynomial is "centered" about 8 =a, it may be helpful to think of the approximation as consisting of two separate spirals, both initiating at the point where 0 = a and where one spiral opens counter-clockwise for 0 > a and increas- ing and the other opens clockwise for e < a and decreasing toward - m. Before examining how the Taylor polynomial approximations apply, we digress to consider the properties of such polynomial spirals. We immediately observe that the larger n is, the more rapidly the corresponding spiral unrolls for 8 - a > 1 and the less rapidly for 0 - a < 1. Further, if the coefficient of such a term is negative or if the values of (0 -a)" are negative, then the spiral is reflected back through the pole, but will still open in the counter-clockwise direction. See Figure 1. Figure 1 Graphs of r = 9, r = g2 and r = -9. Suppose now, for simplicity, that we consider a polar polynomial of degree n in 0, P(0) = aOen+ alen-' + a2en-2+ . +an. In the large, the polar graph of such a polynomial will be a counter-clockwise spiral. On a more local basis, various types of behavior are possible. The following observations are evident after a little thought: 1. The real roots of P(0)correspond to angles at which the curve passes through the pole. 2. As 0 runs through an interval between successive real roots 8, < 8, of P(B), the point (8,P(0)) moves around a closed loop of the polar graph of P, leaving the 326 THE COLLEGE MATHEMATICS JOURNAL pole tangent to the line 8 = +8, and returning tangent to the line 8 = + 8,. 3. If 8, is a real root of P with even multiplicity, the polar graph of P has a cusp at the pole tangent to the line 8 = i-8,,. Note that the sign of P(8) does not change as 8 passes through the value 8,. 4. Each of the relative maxima and minima of the polynomial corresponds to a point where the distance from the pole to the spiral is a relative maximum or minimum. 5. Each of the points of inflection of the polynomial corresponds to a point where the spiral has the same curvature as a "linear" spiral, r = a8, for a given value of 8. However, it is much harder to distinguish such points geometrically in the polar plane than in the rectangular plane. We next see how these properties of polynomial spirals provide the type of agreement we would like to achieve between a polar curve and the corresponding Taylor polynomial approximation in polar coordinates. The agreement can best be appreciated visually. In Figures 2a, 2b and 2c, we show the successive spiral polynomial approximations r = 0, r = 8 - 03/3! and r = 8 - d3/3! + e5/5! to the circle r = sin 0. By the fifth-degree term, the approximation cannot be distin- guished, by eye, from the circle between 8 = -n-/2 and n/2. Figure 2a Graph of r = 6 (outer curve) as approximation to r = sin 6 on 6 E [O, T]. Figure 2b Graph of r = 6 - 03/3!(inner curve) as approximation to r = sin 0 on 6 E [O, TI. VOL. 24, NO.4, SEPTEMBER 1993 327 Figure 2c Graph of r = 0 - e3/3! + e5/5! as approximation to r = sin e on e E [O, TI, Figure 3a Graph of r = ;o2 (outer curve) as approximation to r = 1- cos e (inner curve) on e E [-r,rl. Figure 3b Graph of r = e2/2 - e4/4! (inner curve) as approximation to r = 1- cos e (outer curve) on 6 E I-%-,r]. 328 THE COLLEGE MATHEMATICS JOURNAL Figure 3c Graph of r = 02/2 - 0"4! + 0"6! (outer curve) as approximation to r = 1- cos 0 (inner curve) on 0 E [-T,TI. In Figures 3a, 3b and 3c, we show the successive approximations of degree n = 2,4,6, respectively, to the cardioid r = 1- cos 0. Notice how the resulting polynomials all have double roots at 0 = 0 since the leading term in each case is quadratic in 8 and so each polynomial accurately approximates the cusp in the cardioid. Notice also that successive approximations are alternatively outside and inside the cardioid. Further, each successive approximating curve is clearly a better fit to the cardioid. In Figures 4a, 4b and 4c, we show three approximations to the four-leaf rose, r = sin28, corresponding to Taylor polynomials of degree n = 1, 3, and 9 respec- tively. (In these graphs, we use different viewing "windows" to optimize the view; one unfortunate consequence is that the dimensions of the rose appear somewhat different in each case.) Notice how, as the degree of the approximating polynomial increases and it has more real roots, successively more loops are produced to approximate the petals of the rose curve.
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