The Equiangular Spiral
Part 5: Summary
- Describe in general terms the process of finding a polar formula from the radial measurements on a seashell picture.
- What happens when you zoom in at the center of an equiangular spiral? The behavior you observed is called self-similarity. Explain the name.
- What remains constant as r grows in an equiangular spiral?
- Describe in geometric terms why the equiangular spiral has the name it has.