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1.9 Polar, Cylindrical, and Spherical Coordinates (continued)

What are the polar coordinates of a point, and how are they related to rectangular coordinates?

1. Spherical Coordinates

Spherical Coordinates

2. Work through this ex…

Work through this exercise and explain your reasoning step by step.

3. Work through this ex…

Work through this exercise and explain your reasoning step by step.

4. Draw each of the poi…

Draw each of the points from part and show how the spherical coordinates of each point is being measured. You should use your plots to make sense of the rectangular coordinate measurements that were your answer to part.

5. Work through this ex…

Work through this exercise and explain your reasoning step by step.

6. $\phi =0$…

ϕ=0\phi =0

7. $\phi =1$…

ϕ=1\phi =1

8. $\phi =\frac{\pi}{2}…$

ϕ=π2\phi =\frac{\pi}{2}

9. $\phi =\frac{3\pi}{4…$

ϕ=3π4\phi =\frac{3\pi}{4}

10. $\phi = \pi$…

ϕ=π\phi = \pi

11. the $xy$-plane…

the xyxy-plane

12. the $xz$-plane…

the xzxz-plane

13. $z=x^2+y^2$…

z=x2+y2z=x^2+y^2

14. Work through this ex…

Work through this exercise and explain your reasoning step by step.

15. Draw the region desc…

Draw the region described by ρ≤1\rho \leq 1 and 0≤ϕ≤π20 \leq \phi \leq \frac{\pi}{2}.

16. Draw the region desc…

Draw the region described by x2+y2≤9x^2+y^2 \leq 9 with x≤yx\leq y and −1≤z≤3-1 \leq z \leq 3

17. Give a set of inequa…

Give a set of inequalities in spherical coordinates that describes the points in the seventh octant.

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