Rose (mathematics) - Area

Area

A rose whose polar equation is of the form

where k is a positive integer, has area

\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{2\pi}(a\cos (k\theta))^2\,d\theta = \frac {a^2}{2} \left(\pi + \frac{\sin(4k\pi)}{4k}\right) = \frac{\pi a^2}{2}

if k is even, and

\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{\pi}(a\cos (k\theta))^2\,d\theta = \frac {a^2}{2} \left(\frac{\pi}{2} + \frac{\sin(2k\pi)}{4k}\right) = \frac{\pi a^2}{4}

if k is odd.

The same applies to roses with polar equations of the form

since the graphs of these are just rigid rotations of the roses defined using the cosine.

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