Polar Coordinates

And that's all polar coordinates are telling you.

All right, let's keep converting Cartesian functions to polar coordinates.

But anyway, let's convert this to polar coordinates.

So how do we convert this to r, to polar coordinates? r, theta.

So we've just done a transition from polar to Cartesian coordinates.

So for me, when I do polar I like to think about the angle first.

Let's say that we're given the polar coordinate 4, 150 degrees, and we wanted to convert this to Cartesian coordinates. So we want to convert it to x, y.

The first one, they want us to convert this, x squared plus y squared is equal to 4, to polar coordinates.

If we're doing other coordinates, if we're doing polar coordinates, it could be something slightly different.

We're now equipped, I think, with all of the tools to convert back and forth between polar and rectangular coordinates.

Lockward

Right now I think you're already at the point where if I give you an x and y coordinate you already have a visualization of where that shows up. But polar might be relatively new, so let's try to draw it.

Let's say that we have the polar coordinates r is equal to sine of theta plus cosine of theta.

The ice caps are melting.

It has polar caps.

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