Willing to construct a phasor diagram which consists of 2 vectors and one vector sum. An example is shown below.
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This is straight forward in most of the TeX-friendly drawing tools.
Here for example is a Metapost example:
which was produced with this:
prologues := 3;
outputtemplate := "%j%c.eps";
beginfig(1);
u = 1cm;
path xx, yy;
xx = (left--5 right) scaled u;
yy = xx rotated 90;
draw xx withcolor .7 white;
draw yy withcolor .7 white;
z1 = (4u,u);
z2 = (u,2.828u);
z3 = z1 + z2;
draw z1--z3 withcolor .7 white;
draw z2--z3 withcolor .7 white;
drawarrow origin -- z1;
drawarrow origin -- z2;
drawarrow origin -- z3;
label.rt (btex $x$ etex, point 1 of xx);
label.top(btex $y$ etex, point 1 of yy);
dotlabel.llft(btex $0$ etex, origin);
endfig;
end.
If you want to specify the coordinates using polar notation, as implied by the title of your question, you can replace the lines defining z1 and z2 with something like this:
z1 = right scaled 4u rotated 17;
z2 = right scaled 3u rotated 60;
where 4u and 17° is the first length and rotation and 3u and 60° is the second.
I hope that helps.

