spherical coordinates

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plural noun

1. three coordinates that define the location of a point in three-dimensional space in terms of the length r of its radius vector, the angle, θ, which this vector makes with one axis, and the angle, φ, made by a second axis, perpendicular to the first, with the plane containing the first axis and the point. Usually written ( r , θ, φ)

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Find the equation of the surface in spherical coordinates.

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Express the location of San Francisco in spherical coordinates.

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The point with spherical coordinates ⎛8, π , π ⎞ has rectangular coordinates ⎛2, 2 3, 4 3⎞.

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Find the spherical coordinates ⎛ρ, θ, φ⎞ of the point.

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A sphere that has Cartesian equation x2 + y2 + z2 = c2 has the simple equation ρ = c in spherical coordinates.

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