Texas Instruments TI-82 STATS Manual Book page 117

Setting the Graph
Format
Displaying a
Graph
Window
Variables and
Y.VARS Menus
To display the current graph format settings, press y
[ ]. Chapter 3 describes the format settings in detail. The
FORMAT
other graphing modes share these format settings.
When you press s, the TI-82 STATS plots the selected
polar equations. It evaluates
in intervals of
qmax
window variables define the viewing window.
As the graph is plotted,
Smart Graph applies to polar graphs (Chapter 3).
You can perform these actions from the home screen or a
program.
Access functions by using the name of the equation as a
variable.
Store polar equations.
Select or deselect polar equations.
Store values directly to window variables.
for each value of
R
) and then plots each point. The
qstep
, , , and are updated.
X Y R
q
(from
q qmin
Polar Graphing 5–5
to