Mistakes regarding polar coordinates: Difference between revisions
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* The most common mistake is to confuse Cartesian with polar when plotting a graph. For example: everyone is familiar with '''(x, y)'''. Therefore a common mistake is to think that radius goes along '''x''' and angle is somewhere along '''y'''. Suppose we have (2, 45°). A clueless person thinks x = 2 and y = 45. I have to admit here that I made this mistake and more than once. I think that the origin of this mistake is, ironically, the fact that, a lot of times, polar coordinates are overlapped with the Cartesian coordinates | * The most common mistake is to confuse Cartesian with polar when plotting a graph. For example: everyone is familiar with '''(x, y)'''. Therefore a common mistake is to think that radius goes along '''x''' and angle is somewhere along '''y'''. Suppose we have (2, 45°). A clueless person thinks x = 2 and y = 45. I have to admit here that I made this mistake and more than once. I think that the origin of this mistake is, ironically, the fact that, a lot of times, polar coordinates are overlapped with the Cartesian coordinates. This is done mostly due to the fact that it's easier to think on distances with XY coordinates. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:23, 28 March 2022
- The most common mistake is to confuse Cartesian with polar when plotting a graph. For example: everyone is familiar with (x, y). Therefore a common mistake is to think that radius goes along x and angle is somewhere along y. Suppose we have (2, 45°). A clueless person thinks x = 2 and y = 45. I have to admit here that I made this mistake and more than once. I think that the origin of this mistake is, ironically, the fact that, a lot of times, polar coordinates are overlapped with the Cartesian coordinates. This is done mostly due to the fact that it's easier to think on distances with XY coordinates.
