University Calculus: Early Transcendentals (3rd Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321999584
ISBN 13: 978-0-32199-958-0

Chapter 12 - Practice Exercises - Page 674: 28

Answer

$\dfrac{x-1}{-1}=\dfrac{y-1}{1}=\dfrac{z-\dfrac{\pi}{4}}{1}$

Work Step by Step

Since, $\gamma =(\sqrt 2 \cos t,\sqrt 2 \sin t, t )$ The line which is tangent to the helix at the point $(1,1, \dfrac{\pi}{4})$ can be expressed as: Now, $\dfrac{d \gamma}{dt} =\dfrac{d(\sqrt 2 \cos t,\sqrt 2 \sin t, t )}{dt}=(-\sqrt 2 \sin t,\sqrt 2 \cos t, 1 )$ $\implies \dfrac{d \gamma}{dt} (\dfrac{\pi}{4})=(-\sqrt 2 \sin (\dfrac{\pi}{4}),\sqrt 2 \cos (\dfrac{\pi}{4}), 1 )=(-1,1,1)$ Now, we need to write the parametric equations: $\dfrac{x-1}{-1}=\dfrac{y-1}{1}=\dfrac{z-\dfrac{\pi}{4}}{1}$
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