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The Equiangular Spiral
(Alternate Version)

Part 5: Summary

  1. Describe in general terms the process of finding a polar formula from the polar measurements on a seashell picture.

  2. What happens when you zoom in at the center of an equiangular spiral? The behavior you observed is called self-similarity. Explain the name.

  3. What remains constant as r grows in an equiangular spiral?

  4. Describe in geometric terms why the equiangular spiral has the name it has.

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