Exploring Spherical Coordinates

Spherical coordinates are given by a radial distance and two angle measurements.

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The Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) are related to the spherical coordinates (r, θ, ϕ) by

x=r cos(θ)sin(ϕ)

y=r sin(θ)sin(ϕ)

z=r cos(ϕ)

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Contributed by: Faisal Mohamed

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