Friday, July 15, 2011

Cylindrical co-ordinate question, clockwise?

I am not sure if this helps but when parameterizing a circle in polar coordinates you can have the unit vector going counter clockwise by using x=r cos(theta), and y = r sin(theta). To have the unit vector going clockwise you would use x=r cos(theta) and y= - r sin(theta).

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