Tornado-shaped curves

• Sol Sáez Martínez ^[1] ; Félix Martínez de la Rosa ^[1] ; Sergio Rojas ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Cádiz

     Universidad de Cádiz

     Cádiz, España

     
• Localización: International journal of mathematical education in science and technology, ISSN 0020-739X, Vol. 48, Nº. 2, 2017, págs. 289-300
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Advanced Calculus, our students wonder if it is possible to graphically represent a tornado by means of a three-dimensional curve. In this paper, we show it is possible by providing the parametric equations of such tornado-shaped curves.