Polar coordinates formula

Our conversion formula is x=rcosθy=rsinθ. To go the other direction, one can use the same right triangle. Since r is the distance from the origin to (x,y), it is the magnitude r=√x2+y2.

1. How do you find polar coordinates?
2. What is the polar formula?

How do you find polar coordinates?

To convert from Cartesian Coordinates (x,y) to Polar Coordinates (r,θ):

1. r = √ ( x² + y² )
2. θ = tan^-1 ( y / x )

What is the polar formula?

A polar equation is any equation that describes a relation between r r r and θ \theta θ, where r r r represents the distance from the pole (origin) to a point on a curve, and θ \theta θ represents the counterclockwise angle made by a point on a curve, the pole, and the positive x x x-axis.