How to operate in Angle Notation (Electrical Engineering)

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In electrical engineering, operating with phasors in angle notation involves specific rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. For addition and subtraction, convert the phasors to rectangular form, perform the operation, and then convert back to polar form. For multiplication, multiply the magnitudes and add the angles, while for division, divide the magnitudes and subtract the angles. It's essential to keep all angles in degrees as specified. Understanding these operations is crucial for effectively working with phasors in 2D space.
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Background info (Not actual question): So I've been gone a week from university and I've missed a lot of content, one particular thing that boggles me is this new method to operate with vector magnitudes and their angles. The operations surprised me with the speed they were done. I did ask a classmate who'd been the whole week i missed, he couldn't muster the memory of how to operate either. So without further due the actual question:

QUESTION: We are operating in 2D space with phasors (Current,voltage,power etc.)
What are the general rules to add, subtract, multiply and divide phasors in angle notation (Degrees, not radians).

Equations a=|v|∠θ, b=|u|∠φ (all angles in degrees)
a+b=|?|∠?
 
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Remember how these things were done with complex numbers. If you have ##z_1 = a e^{i \theta_1}## and ##z_2 = a e^{i \theta_2}##, how would you do ##z_1 z_2##?
 
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Ah yes, convert to radians and we're in business
 
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