Understanding the Spherical Polar Coordinate System

Mathematics
[caption id="attachment_9496" align="alignright" width="480"] A cone in the spherical polar coordinate system. CC-SA 3.0 Unported by Lantonov[/caption] Do you have a basic knowledge of the spherical polar coordinate system? A coordinate system provides a way to describe and plot math functions using two or three variables. If there are two variables the graph is 2D. If there are three variables, the graph is 3D. The Cartesian Coordinate System The most familiar coordinate system is the Cartesian coordinate system. Typical variable names are x and y in 2D (although variables can have any name), and x, y, and z in 3D. Every point of every 2D function has a unique value in (x, y). Every 3D function similarly has a unique value in (x, y, z). The Polar Coordinate System This…
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