Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Polar coordinates

A polar coordinate is complicating the regular graph of the x,y plane. Polar coordinates are now radiuses and angles. It helps to know some conversion factors between the x,y plane and the polar one. 

These conversion factors allow one to go from regularnt complex. Now what doesnthe graph look like?  It is just a bunch of circles and lines but one must know their unit circle to know how to use the graph. 
You count out the circles by your r. So if it is 2 in the r place count put 2 circles. After that you look at the theta to see the angle such as pi/4 and so one. 
That is all just plug and chug and graph. Yay fun. 

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