Try it now. Rotate the picture around and use the plot inspector to answer the following questions. The space curve also contains no information about the relative speeds of the particle at different moments in time. We can take advantage of the way that Maple plots space curves to visually recover some of this lost information. Maple plots points for the value of the function at the endpoints of each segment.
Maple connects the plotted points with straight line segments.
Open a new Maple worksheet and define a vector-valued function that sends to . Name this function P . Use Maple's spacecurve command to plot the space curve parameterized by P as ranges from to . Write down a brief description of what the curve looks like. Adjust your viewpoint so that the positive z-axis seems to be pointing straight out of the screen at you.