I am trying to plot an ellipse using a polarplot function.

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Falak Mandali
Falak Mandali le 18 Sep 2021
Commenté : Star Strider le 18 Sep 2021
I calculated the radii for every 1 degree increase in the angle from the major axis, and the calculation is right. But when I try to plot the points using a polar plot, I am getting a shaded region. I don't understand why that is happening and how to fix it. Your help is appreciated.
The following is my code:
%initialization
radius = zeros(1,361);
ta = linspace(0,360,361);
h_a = 450; %apogee height from Mars in km
e = 0.001; %eccentricity of ellipse
for i = 1:1:361 %true anamaly of the satellite as measure from the major axis of the ellipse poinint the perigee.
radius(i) = (h_a * (1 - e)) / (1 + (e .* cosd(ta(i))));
end
%plot
polarplot(ta, radius)
The following is the plot I got:

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Star Strider
Star Strider le 18 Sep 2021
The polarplot function requires the angular measure to be in radians.
Change that in the polarplot call and it works. (The elliptical nature can be made more apparent by temporarily increasing ‘e’ to be certain it is working as expected.)
%initialization
radius = zeros(1,361);
ta = linspace(0,360,361);
h_a = 450; %apogee height from Mars in km
e = 0.001; %eccentricity of ellipse
% e = 0.5;
for i = 1:numel(ta) %true anamaly of the satellite as measure from the major axis of the ellipse poinint the perigee.
radius(i) = (h_a * (1 - e)) / (1 + (e .* cosd(ta(i))));
end
%plot
polarplot(deg2rad(ta), radius)
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Falak Mandali
Falak Mandali le 18 Sep 2021
That fixed it, thank you!!
Star Strider
Star Strider le 18 Sep 2021
As always, my pleasure!
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