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Calculus Animations With Mathcad: Polar Curves
Contains an animation that will show you how the graphs of a number of polar equations are graphed. (Page may take some time to load completely.)
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Robert Munafo: Polar Coordinate System
This site is a personal site that contains brief but good information on the polar coordinate system. Contains links to additional information, along with several formulas and charts.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Polar and Cartesian Coordinates
Students learn about polar and cartesian coordinates. The tutorial consists of notes and examples.
Windstream
Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Polar Coordinates and Complex Numbers
An introduction to basic conversion formulas for polar coordinates and complex numbers. Includes several examples.
Math Words
Math words.com: Polar Coordinates
This resource provides a basic definition for polar coordinates. Describes the coordinates (r, 0) that are assigned to a point and gives a diagram of a polar coordinate.
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Math2: Circles
This site has many useful formulas and examples relating to circles, including related definitions, circumference of a circle, area of a circle, length of a circular arc, area of a circular sector, equation of a circle in cartesian...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Polar Equations
This site discusses how to graph a polar equation and gives several pretty graphed examples.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Folium of Descartes
This site gives the parametric, cartesian, and polar equations for this plane curve. Also given is the point of discontinuity, equation for the asymptote, and area under the curve.
Curated OER
Circle Picture
This site provides definitions for different parts of a circle, pictures to more clearly represent formulas involving circles. Some of the formulas discussed include: area of a circle, area of a sector of a cirles, circumference, length...
Curated OER
Parametric Unit Circle
This site provides definitions for different parts of a circle, pictures to more clearly represent formulas involving circles. Some of the formulas discussed include: area of a circle, area of a sector of a cirles, circumference, length...
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