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    geometry, curvilinear coordinates are a coordinate system for Euclidean space in which the coordinate lines may be curved. These coordinates may be derived...
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  • Curvilinear coordinates can be formulated in tensor calculus, with important applications in physics and engineering, particularly for describing transportation...
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    commutes with a change of (curvilinear) coordinate system. The appropriate expression is more complicated in curvilinear coordinates. The divergence of a vector...
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  • i.e., are perpendicular. Orthogonal coordinates are a special but extremely common case of curvilinear coordinates. While vector operations and physical...
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    free dictionary. Cartesian coordinate system Coordinate system Curvilinear coordinates Four-velocity Jacobian matrix and determinant Normal vector Polar...
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    of the coordinates are significant and not the actual values. Some other common coordinate systems are the following: Curvilinear coordinates are a generalization...
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  • 1&0&0\\0&1&0\\0&0&1\end{pmatrix}}} The general curvilinear coordinates reduce to Cartesian coordinates: ( q 1 , q 2 , q 3 ) = ( x , y , z ) ⇒ d r = (...
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  • {g} ^{3}} are the contravariant basis vectors in a curvilinear coordinate system, with coordinates of points denoted by ( ξ 1 , ξ 2 , ξ 3 {\displaystyle...
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  • common curvilinear coordinate systems. This article uses the standard notation ISO 80000-2, which supersedes ISO 31-11, for spherical coordinates (other...
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    Curvilinear perspective, also five-point perspective, is a graphical projection used to draw 3D objects on 2D surfaces, for which (straight) lines on...
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    orthogonal curvilinear coordinates, separation of variables can still be used, but in some details different from that in Cartesian coordinates. For instance...
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  • the use of concepts such as vectors, tensors, pseudotensors and curvilinear coordinates. For an introduction based on the example of particles following...
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    Geodetic coordinates are a type of curvilinear orthogonal coordinate system used in geodesy based on a reference ellipsoid. They include geodetic latitude...
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  • which can be normalized to be of unit length. For more detail see curvilinear coordinates. Coordinate surfaces, coordinate lines, and basis vectors are components...
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  • one type of curvilinear coordinate system to another. A different use of the term "fictitious force" often is used in curvilinear coordinates, particularly...
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    metric tensor of the curvilinear coordinate system. All the indices a, b, c, each take the values 1, 2, 3. Curvilinear coordinates are not the same as...
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    including divergence, gradient, and Laplacian in polar coordinates, see curvilinear coordinates. The arc length (length of a line segment) defined by a...
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  • state of motion. Examples are Cartesian coordinates, polar coordinates, and (more generally) curvilinear coordinates. Here are two quotes relating "state...
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    Cartesian coordinates are not used, for example, if polar coordinates are used in two dimensions or, in more general terms, if curvilinear coordinates are used...
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  • Vector analysis Matrix calculus Ricci calculus Curvilinear coordinates Tensors in curvilinear coordinates Multilinear subspace learning Multilinear algebra...
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    formulae found in orthogonal coordinates. Parabolic cylindrical coordinates Orthogonal coordinate system Curvilinear coordinates Morse PM, Feshbach H (1953)...
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    to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity (for which linear elasticity...
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    {\partial (f^{1},f^{2},f^{3})}{\partial (x^{1},x^{2},x^{3})}}.} In curvilinear coordinates, or more generally on a curved manifold, the gradient involves...
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    introduced by James Joseph Sylvester in 1851. Curvilinear coordinate systems, such as cylindrical or spherical coordinates, are often used in physical and geometric...
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  • related to Generalized coordinates. Canonical coordinates Hamiltonian mechanics Virtual work Orthogonal coordinates Curvilinear coordinates Mass matrix Stiffness...
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    moment of inertia tensor in rigid body dynamics. Sometimes general curvilinear coordinates are convenient, as in high-deformation continuum mechanics, or...
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  • Γl mn are the Christoffel symbols for the selected coordinates. In arbitrary curvilinear coordinates in N dimensions (ξ1, ..., ξN), we can write the Laplacian...
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    instrument Vector fields in cylindrical and spherical coordinates – Vector field representation in 3D curvilinear coordinate systems Yaw, pitch, and roll – Principal...
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  • single number. In Euclidean geometry, the dot product of the Cartesian coordinates of two vectors is widely used. It is often called the inner product (or...
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  • write the quantum mechanical kinetic energy operator for such curvilinear coordinates, but it is hard to formulate a general theory applicable to any...
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