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Buri
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Homework Statement
I have the following:
x(t) = acos(kt) + bsin(kt)
y(t) = aksin(kt) + bkcos(kt)
The Attempt at a Solution
I'd like to show this is an ellipse, by actually explicitly finding the equation, but I honestly I have no clue about how to do this. Wiki gives the equation of an ellipse centered around (0,0) to be
x(t) = acos(t)
y(t) = bsin(t)
Here I could do this, but in my version I can't since it has both cos and sin in each function x and y. How would I go about doing this?
Thanks for the help!