• Local coordinates are the ones used in a local coordinate system or a local coordinate space. Simple examples: Houses. In order to work in a house construction...
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    known as local ellipsoidal system, local geodetic coordinate system, local vertical, local horizontal coordinates (LVLH), or topocentric coordinates. It consists...
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  • frame Frame bundle Inertial frame of reference Local coordinates Local spacetime structure Lorentz covariance Minkowski space Normal coordinates v t e...
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  • coordinates are sets of coordinates on phase space which can be used to describe a physical system at any given point in time. Canonical coordinates are...
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  • differential geometry, normal coordinates at a point p in a differentiable manifold equipped with a symmetric affine connection are a local coordinate system in...
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    geometry, a coordinate system is a system that uses one or more numbers, or coordinates, to uniquely determine and standardize the position of the points or...
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    directly with this issue, local coordinates are preferable, as discussed next. Local coordinates mean a set of coordinates that travel with the particle...
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  • Fermi coordinates. In one use they are local coordinates that are adapted to a geodesic. In a second, more general one, they are local coordinates that...
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    datum obtain identical coordinates for a given physical point. However, different datums typically produce different coordinates for the same location...
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  • specifically in differential geometry, isothermal coordinates on a Riemannian manifold are local coordinates where the metric is conformal to the Euclidean...
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    three-dimensional space by using a distance and two angles as its three coordinates. These are the radial distance r along the line connecting the point...
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  • Rindler coordinates are a coordinate system used in the context of special relativity to describe the hyperbolic acceleration of a uniformly accelerating...
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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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    spherical coordinates, with θ the angle with the z axis and φ the rotation around the z axis, and F again written in local unit coordinates, the divergence...
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  • that ∇XY − ∇Y X = [X, Y] for arbitrary X and Y. Written in terms of local coordinates, this is equivalent to 0 = X j Y k ( Γ j k i − Γ k j i ) , {\displaystyle...
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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 from...
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  • Physicists usually work in local coordinates (i.e. coordinates defined on some local patch of M {\displaystyle M} ). In local coordinates x μ {\displaystyle x^{\mu...
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    coordinate system. Horizontal coordinates define the observer's orientation, but not location of the origin, while topocentric coordinates define the origin location...
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  • In Riemannian geometry, a branch of mathematics, harmonic coordinates are a certain kind of coordinate chart on a smooth manifold, determined by a Riemannian...
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    List of tallest structures (category Lists of coordinates)
    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The tallest...
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  • {\displaystyle \left(M,g\right)} , one can define preferred local coordinates, called geodesic normal coordinates. These are adapted to the metric so that geodesics...
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  • In mathematics, orthogonal coordinates are defined as a set of d coordinates q = ( q 1 , q 2 , … , q d ) {\displaystyle \mathbf {q} =(q^{1},q^{2},\dots...
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  • Gullstrand–Painlevé coordinates are a particular set of coordinates for the Schwarzschild metric – a solution to the Einstein field equations which describes...
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  • coordinates Convert ECEF coordinates to local ENU coordinates To transform from ECEF coordinates to the local coordinates we need a local reference point. Typically...
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  • Generalized forces Geodetic reference frame Inertial frame of reference Local coordinates Material frame-indifference Rod and frame test Kinematics Laboratory...
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    that relate the coordinates defined by the various charts to one another are called transition maps. The ability to define such a local differential structure...
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    satellite derived station coordinates and gravimetric deflection of the vertical and geoid height data were used to determine local-to-geocentric datum shifts...
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  • List of United States cities by population (category Lists of coordinates)
    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is...
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    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Wrecks...
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    ellipsoid definition. Other local datums such as NAD 83 may also be used. Due to differences between datums, the ECEF coordinates for a location will be different...
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