Lecture 23: Curvilinear Coordinates (RHB 8.10)
Lecture 23: Curvilinear Coordinates (RHB 8.10) It is often convenient to work with variables other than the Cartesian coordinates x i ( = x, y, z). For example in Lecture 15 we met spherical polar and cylindrical polar coordinates.
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