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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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August 11, 2010
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Rectangular to Polar Co-ordinates

  • August 11, 2010
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Thought I would share my latest worksheet for information and comment.

The worksheet calculates the angle and distance from a known station and returns the the distance in m and the angle in degrees.

A graph is also produced which indicates the distance and oreientation of each co-ordinate from the known station.

All comments welcome.

Mike

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jeanGiraud1-Visitor
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August 11, 2010

Extremely rarely a piece of work needs differentiating variables from other non variables or user. The red deg and ^1 is to be zapped out. Return them as variables. Especially red as an error in normal Mathcad.

MikeArmstrong1-VisitorAuthor
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August 12, 2010

jean Giraud wrote:

The red deg and ^1 is to be zapped out. Return them as variables. Especially red as an error in normal Mathcad.

The deg^-1 was added to display the angle as degree's - shouldn't be though, I agree.

Mike

jeanGiraud1-Visitor
1-Visitor
August 12, 2010

Mike,


Here is another shopping list to suit other project configuration.

Your function XY2POL(x,y) is superb "Lines" too.

Remark: arg & angle in opposite rotation



Jean

MikeArmstrong1-VisitorAuthor
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August 12, 2010

Jean,

Cheers for taking the time to look at my worksheet. I particularly like the polar plot at the bottom of the sheet

Your function XY2POL(x,y) is superb "Lines" too.

Thanks very much. I must add that Richard passed the lines function to me I just threw it into a program.

Mike

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