Draw Thomson cross section in polar plot by matlab

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The discussion centers on generating a Thomson cross section in a polar plot using MATLAB. The user provided a code snippet that utilizes the polar function in MATLAB to plot the cross section based on the Thomson scattering radius of 2.8179e-13. The code correctly defines the angle variable 't' and the radial distance 'x', confirming that the output is indeed a polar plot. The user seeks validation on the correctness of their implementation.

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Well I'm supposed to draw Thomson cross section in polar plot by MATLAB software. Have I done it right? I mean does this figure that I got seem to be in polar plot or not?

Code: 
t = 0:.01:2*pi;
r =  2.8179e-13
x =  t,0.5*power(r,2)*(1+power(cos(t),2))
polar(t,x)
Thanks
 

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