Explain why a polar curve is not always bounded.
There
are lots of common polar curves that are bounded therefore a polar curve is not
always bounded all the time. A polar curve is required to have an unbounded function
(right side of r = f(Θ)) to be an unbounded polar. An example of an unbounded
curve would be r = Θ for 0 ≤ Θ.
Answer: Polar curves do not need to be always bounded, suppose you are graphing something like a half-circle, the equation can be expressed as:
C(θ) = acos(θ) and 0 < θ < π
Another example may be if you want to describe a spiral, where the function may be thought as
C(r,θ) = r(θ)cos(θ)
where r(θ) = Aθ, so when the angle increases, also the radius, and then the curve is not bounded.