In this lesson you will learn
By the end of this section students will be able to:
You have been able to plot points in the real number system for many years now, and have recently extended this understanding to plotting points on an Argand plane. In this section, you will extend your understanding of graphing rectangular coordinates to graphing polar coordinates.
Using polar coordinates, you will discover, is often a simpler way to represent equations. Quite often, converting a complex number from rectangular form to polar form will enable you to graph an equation more easily.
This section of study should take 3 to 4 hours to complete.
To be successful in this lesson, it would be helpful to know the following: