Algebra 2, Student Edition by McGraw-Hill Education
by Holliday ? Luchin ? Cuevas ? Carter Marks ? Day ? Casey ? Hayek
ISBN: 9780078738302
MHID: 007873830X
About the Cover
On a clear day, visitors to the top of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis,
Missouri, can see up to thirty miles to the east or west. The Arch,
towering 630 feet (192 meters) above the banks of the Mississippi
River, commemorates the westward expansion of the United
States in the 19th century. It takes the shape of a catenary curve,
which can be approximated using a quadratic function. You will
study quadratic functions in Chapter 5.
About the Graphics
3-D Lissajous curve. Created with Mathematica.
A 3-D Lissajous figure is constructed as a tube around a
trigonometric space curve. The radius of the tube is made
proportional to the distance to the nearest self-intersection. For
more information and for programs to construct such graphics,
