Parametric Plot

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
August 31, 2026

This notebook downloaded from https://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/Calculus/ParametricPlot.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ParametricPlot.html.

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Figure

A parametric plot of a cycloid.

ParametricPlot[{t-Sin[t],1-Cos[t]},{t,0,4 π},AxesLabel->{Style[x[t],FontFamily->"Times",14],Style[y[t],FontFamily->"Times",14]},PlotStyle->Directive[,AbsoluteThickness[2]],BaseStyle->Directive[FontFamily->"Times",14]]