Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134639673
Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 19, Problem 17RQ
You are programming the control system for a robot tractor that will be used to plant and till circular fields. (Circular fields are very common in the arid western United States, where they commonly use center-pivot irrigation, inherently giving a circular field.) To avoid having the tractor run over crops traveling directly from the outside to the center or vice versa, it will be programmed to do one double-wide spiral inward, followed by a second outward spiral exactly halfway between the lines of the inward spiral to give the desired spacing. See diagram, inward in black, outward in red (or vice versa).
Write a program to generate this spiral pattern in a figure window.
- First, ask the user how many turns they wish for one arm of the spiral to have. In the example shown the user entered 5, for a total of 10 turns, 5 inward and 5 outward.
- All turns should be evenly spaced as shown. You may assume any outside diameter that is convenient, and the values do not need to be marked on the axes.
- You can consider either spiral to be the starting (inward) spiral as long as you end up with the correct pattern.
Hint: Recall the math of polar to rectangular conversions:
- X = R*cos(A)
- Y = R*sin(A)
Hint: Make the radius (distance from center) dependent on the total angle through which the tractor has traveled.
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