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How to Find Horizontal Tangents on Polar Curves

Use the Cartesian derivatives of a polar parameterization to identify horizontal tangents, reject singular candidates and report points without duplicating polar representations.

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Find the Points of Horizontal Tangency to the Polar Curve r = 2 csc θ + 3