Coordinate Conversions
1. Find the rectangular coordinates for the polar point $(3, \frac{\pi}{2})$.
- Recall conversion formulas: $x = r \cos \theta$, $y = r \sin \theta$.
- Substitute: $x = 3 \cos \frac{\pi}{2} = 3 \times 0 = 0$.
- Substitute: $y = 3 \sin \frac{\pi}{2} = 3 \times 1 = 3$.
- Answer: $(x, y) = (0, 3)$.
2. Find the polar coordinates for the rectangular point $(1, -1)$.
- Radius $r = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2} = \sqrt{1^2 + (-1)^2} = \sqrt{1 + 1} = \sqrt{2}$.
- Angle $\theta = \tan^{-1} \left( \frac{y}{x} \right) = \tan^{-1} \left( \frac{-1}{1} \right) = \tan^{-1}(-1)$.
- Since $(1,-1)$ is in the fourth quadrant, $\theta = \frac{7\pi}{4}$.
- Answer: $(r, \theta) = \left( \sqrt{2}, \frac{7\pi}{4} \right)$.
3. Convert rectangular equation $3x - y + 2 = 0$ to polar form.
- Use $x = r \cos \theta$, $y = r \sin \theta$.
- Substitute: $3(r \cos \theta) - (r \sin \theta) + 2 = 0$.
- Factor $r$: $r(3 \cos \theta - \sin \theta) + 2 = 0$.
- Solve for $r$: $$r = \frac{-2}{3 \cos \theta - \sin \theta}$$.
4. Convert polar equation $\theta = \frac{5\pi}{6}$ to rectangular form.
- $\theta = \tan^{-1} \left( \frac{y}{x} \right) = \frac{5\pi}{6}$.
- So, $\frac{y}{x} = \tan \frac{5\pi}{6} = -\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$.
- Multiply both sides by $x$: $y = -\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} x$.
- Answer: $\boxed{ y = -\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} x }$.
5. Classify the graph of $9x^2 + 4y^2 - 18x + 16y - 119 = 0$.
- Group terms: $9x^2 - 18x + 4y^2 + 16y = 119$.
- Complete the squares:
- For $x$: $9(x^2 - 2x)$; complete square inside: $x^2 - 2x + 1 - 1$.
- For $y$: $4(y^2 + 4y)$; complete square inside: $y^2 + 4y + 4 - 4$.
- Rewrite:
$9(x^2 - 2x + 1) - 9 + 4(y^2 + 4y + 4) - 16 = 119$.
$9(x - 1)^2 - 9 + 4(y + 2)^2 - 16 = 119$.
- Combine constants: $-9 -16 = -25$, move to right side:
$9(x - 1)^2 + 4(y + 2)^2 = 119 + 25 = 144$.
- Divide both sides by $144$:
$\frac{(x - 1)^2}{16} + \frac{(y + 2)^2}{36} = 1$.
- This is the equation of an ellipse centered at $(1, -2)$.
6. Identify surface of $\frac{x^2}{4} + \frac{y^2}{9} - \frac{z^2}{16} = 1$.
- The presence of $+$ terms in $x^2$ and $y^2$, and a $-$ in $z^2$, with constant $= 1$ implies a hyperboloid of one sheet.
Final answers:
1. $(0, 3)$
2. $(\sqrt{2}, \frac{7\pi}{4})$
3. $r = \frac{-2}{3 \cos \theta - \sin \theta}$
4. $y = -\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} x$
5. Ellipse
6. Hyperboloid of one sheet