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#1 2011-05-16 20:43:30
- glenn101
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Why doesn't n-tuple notation work for curvilinear coordinates?
By N-Tuple notation I mean representing the standard basis vectors i,j,k as (1,1,1) for R=i+j+k for example.
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#2 2011-05-16 22:36:45
- Bob
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Re: Why doesn't n-tuple notation work for curvilinear coordinates?
hi glenn101
Have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_polar_coordinates
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#3 2011-05-16 23:12:43
- glenn101
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Re: Why doesn't n-tuple notation work for curvilinear coordinates?
I think I get it now, is it because that notation would be ambiguous as to which coordinate system we were using if we allowed spherical and cylindrical coordinates to use the same notation?
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