March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 8m
English
The spherical coordinate vector A may be defined as follows:
where the unit vectors correspond to the unit vectors in Figure B.1.
Figure B.1 Spherical coordinate system
To convert from rectangular to spherical, or conversely, may be accomplished through the following formulae:

A thorough overview of the three different coordinate systems may be found in Paul and Nasar [1].
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