December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
6h 41m
English
CHAPTER11
Polar Coordinates
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As we talked about in Chapter 1, the study of mathematics would be quite different if Descartes had used a series of concentric circles when he tried to determine the location of the bug on the ceiling rather than the series of parallel and perpendicular lines that became the Rectangular Coordinate System (or better still, the Cartesian Coordinate System). We will take a little time in this chapter to examine some of the basics of calculus—slopes of tangent ...
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