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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Coordinate system (redirect from Coordinates)
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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Centripetal force (section Local coordinates)
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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Geographic coordinate system (redirect from Geographic coordinates)
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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Spherical coordinate system (redirect from Spherical coordinates)
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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Divergence (section Definition in coordinates)
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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Horizontal coordinate system (redirect from Horizon coordinates)
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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Frame of reference (redirect from Spacetime coordinates)
Generalized forces Geodetic reference frame Inertial frame of reference Local coordinates Material frame-indifference Rod and frame test Kinematics Laboratory...
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Differentiable manifold (section Definition of tangent space and differentiation in local coordinates)
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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World Geodetic System (redirect from GPS coordinates)
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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Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site (category Lists of coordinates)
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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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