tangential polar equation
tangential polar equation
[tan¦jen·chəl ¦pō·lər i′kwā·zhən] (mathematics)
An equation of a curve exprepssed in terms of the distance of a point P on the curve from a reference point O and the perpendicular distance from O to the tangent to the curve at P.
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