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The polar coordinate system is especially useful in situations where the relationship between two points is most easily... Each point in the polar coordinate system can be described with the two polar coordinates... The polar coordinate system is extended into three dimensions with two different coordinate systems... dimensional polar coordinate system by adding a third coordinate measuring the height of a point above the plane... the angular rate appearing in the polar coordinate expressions is that of the particle under observation...

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