Converting Coordinates from Polar to Rectangular

Key Questions

• Are there more than one way to convert Polar to Rectangular coordinates?

  Answer:

  All Polar `rarr` Rectangular coordinate conversions are based on the definitions of `sin` and `cos`:
  `color(white)("XXX")sin(theta)=y/rcolor(white)("XXX")cos(theta)=x/r`

  Explanation:

  There may be many ways to visualize the conversion of Polar to Rectangular coordinates. Sometimes (depending upon the values of `r` or `theta`) it is easier or faster to see this conversion graphically or in some other form, but in the end it comes back to the relationship between `x, y, r, and theta` as defined by the trigonometric functions.
  
  (I assume here that we are dealing only with Real values of `x, y, r, and theta`).

  Alan P. · 1 · Jan 14 2016
• What is the formula for converting polar coordinates to rectangular coordinates?

  Answer:

  `y = r sin theta, x = r cos theta`

  Explanation:

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  Polar coordinates to rectangular conversion :

  `y = r sin theta, x = r cos theta`

  sankarankalyanam · 1 · Jul 9 2018

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