Exploring Cylindrical Coordinates
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Cylindrical coordinates are an extension of the two-dimensional polar coordinates along the -axis.
Contributed by: Faisal Mohamed (March 2011)
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The Cartesian coordinates (,
,
) are related to the cylindrical coordinates (
,
, z) by
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