The Origin.
That is the origin O, from which all angles and distances to the point are measured, instead of measuring distance from the axes. In bipolar coordinates, there are two poles, from which angles are both measured to determine the distance.
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An ordered pair gives coordinates and location
The point whose Cartesian coordinates are (-3, -3) has the polar coordinates R = 3 sqrt(2), Θ = -0.75pi.
We assume that the ambient space is equipped with the standard Cartesian coordinate system and specify points by their Cartesian coordinates.The Cartesian coordinates of a point in the plane are a pair (x,y).The homogeneous coordinates of a point in the plane are a triple (x,y,w) with w!=0. The Cartesian coordinates of a point with homogeneous coordinates (x,y,w) are (x/w,y/w).Remark: We notice that the homogeneous coordinates of a point are not unique. Two triples that are multiples of each other specify the same point.The Cartesian coordinates of a point are of type double in the floating point kernel and of type rational in the rational kernel. The homogeneous coordinates of a point in the rational kernel are of type integer. Points in the floating point kernel are stored by their Cartesian coordinates.For points in the rational kernel it is more efficient to store them by their homogeneous coordinates, i.e., to use the same denominator for x- and y-coordinate.For compatibility also points in the floating point kernel have homogeneous coordinates (x,y,1.0). These homogeneous coordinates are of type double.
A rotation turns a shape through an angle at a fixed point thus changing its coordinates
It is a fixed reference point in space from which distances are measured.
A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length. Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or just axis of the system.
That is the origin O, from which all angles and distances to the point are measured, instead of measuring distance from the axes. In bipolar coordinates, there are two poles, from which angles are both measured to determine the distance.
relating to, measured from, or as if observed from a particular point on the earth's surface : having or relating to such a point as origin (e.g. topocentric coordinates)
Latitude is based on the equator. Longitude i sbased on Greenwich, England. The English came up with the idea, so they got to choose to reference point. ===================================== This system of locating points on the Earth's surface that we're discussing is a direct application of "spherical coordinates", familiar to anyone who has gone past high-school- junior-year math. In the mathematics of spherical coordinates, the position of a point is specified by three numbers: the radial distance of that point from a fixed origin, its polar angle measured from a fixed zenith direction, and the azimuth angle of its orthogonal projection on a reference plane that passes through the origin and is orthogonal to the zenith, measured from a fixed reference direction on that plane. We take that system of coordinates, place its origin at the Earth's center, set the fixed zenith direction to be the direction from the origin toward the Earth's north pole, use the Earth's radius for the radial distance of all points so that we never have to specify it, and locate any point using the two angles of its spherical coordinates.
frequency- Hertz (Hz)
It is because many things are measured with reference to a fixed point: it space or time. This point is called a reference point or origin.
It is the point in a mathematical space from which all distances are measured. In two dimensions its coordinates are (0,0). In 3-D they are (0,0,0) and so on.
Time and the distance from a fixed point (the origin) - either in a fixed direction or radially.
The slope of a line and the coordinates of a point on the line.The slope of a line and the coordinates of a point on the line.The slope of a line and the coordinates of a point on the line.The slope of a line and the coordinates of a point on the line.
The vertical axis gives the distance of an object from a fixed point - the point of reference - after a time, as measured on the horizontal axis.