Are the two polar coordinates the same: (8, 10pi), (-8, 10pi)?
1 Answer
Feb 15, 2016
No
Explanation:
The negative value on one radius (and not on the other) indicates that the distance is to be measured in the opposite direction from the origin.
In this particular case we could note that
Viewed using Cartesian axis, the polar coordinate:
and
the polar coordinate: