Section 16.4 Worksheet:

Assignment: Page 1028: 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 15, 18, 19, 25, 29 (due Monday, 3/15).

1. What are the transformations that take Cartesian coordinates into polar coordinates, and vice versa? Why is one direction more complicated?

2. You are expressly warned by our author about one thing in this section: what?

3. What is funny about the name polar rectangle?

4. Why on Earth would we want to complicate our lives with polar integrals? In what situations is it worth our while?