rectangular coordinates
Britishplural noun
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In the xy-plane, the right triangle shown in Figure 2.89 provides the key to transformation between cylindrical and Cartesian, or rectangular, coordinates.
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Another way to look at the polar double integral is to change the double integral in rectangular coordinates by substitution.
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Example 1.14 gives some more examples of functions for transforming from polar to rectangular coordinates.
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This is exactly the same process that we followed in Introduction to Parametric Equations and Polar Coordinates to convert from polar coordinates to two-dimensional rectangular coordinates.
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I also made myself master of the theories of rectangular coordinates and some of the differential processes applying to them, which only a few of the best of the university mathematicians then wholly possessed.
From Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by George Biddell Airy
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