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This article uses the standard notation ISO 80000-2, which supersedes ISO 31-11, for spherical coordinates (other sources may reverse the definitions of θ and φ): . The polar angle is denoted by [,]: it is the angle between the z-axis and the radial vector connecting the origin to the point in question.
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The three coordinates (ρ, φ, z) of a point P are defined as: The radial distance ρ is the Euclidean distance from the z-axis to the point P.; The azimuth φ is the angle between the reference direction on the chosen plane and the line from the origin to the projection of P on the plane.
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