geometry, curvilinear coordinates are a coordinate system for Euclidean space in which the coordinate lines may be curved. These coordinates may be derived...

Curvilinear coordinates can be formulated in tensor calculus, with important applications in physics and engineering, particularly for describing transportation...

commutes with a change of (curvilinear) coordinate system. The appropriate expression is more complicated in curvilinear coordinates. The divergence of a vector...

of the coordinates are significant and not the actual values. Some other common coordinate systems are the following: Curvilinear coordinates are a generalization...

free dictionary. Cartesian coordinate system Coordinate system Curvilinear coordinates Four-velocity Jacobian matrix and determinant Normal vector Polar...

i.e., are perpendicular. Orthogonal coordinates are a special but extremely common case of curvilinear coordinates. While vector operations and physical...

common curvilinear coordinate systems. This article uses the standard notation ISO 80000-2, which supersedes ISO 31-11, for spherical coordinates (other...

1&0&0\\0&1&0\\0&0&1\end{pmatrix}}} The general curvilinear coordinates reduce to Cartesian coordinates: ( q 1 , q 2 , q 3 ) = ( x , y , z ) ⇒ d r = (...

orthogonal curvilinear coordinates, separation of variables can still be used, but in some details different from that in Cartesian coordinates. For instance...

{g} ^{3}} are the contravariant basis vectors in a curvilinear coordinate system, with coordinates of points denoted by ( ξ 1 , ξ 2 , ξ 3 {\displaystyle...

Curvilinear perspective, also five-point perspective, is a graphical projection used to draw 3D objects on 2D surfaces, for which (straight) lines on...

metric tensor of the curvilinear coordinate system. All the indices a, b, c, each take the values 1, 2, 3. Curvilinear coordinates are not the same as...

formulae found in orthogonal coordinates. Parabolic cylindrical coordinates Orthogonal coordinate system Curvilinear coordinates Morse PM, Feshbach H (1953)...

which can be normalized to be of unit length. For more detail see curvilinear coordinates. Coordinate surfaces, coordinate lines, and basis vectors are components...

the use of concepts such as vectors, tensors, pseudotensors and curvilinear coordinates. For an introduction based on the example of particles following...

including divergence, gradient, and Laplacian in polar coordinates, see curvilinear coordinates. The arc length (length of a line segment) defined by a...

to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity (for which linear elasticity...

Γl mn are the Christoffel symbols for the selected coordinates. In arbitrary curvilinear coordinates in N dimensions (ξ1, ..., ξN), we can write the Laplacian...

Cartesian coordinates are not used, for example, if polar coordinates are used in two dimensions or, in more general terms, if curvilinear coordinates are used...

systems. These systems may be rectangular like cartesian, Curvilinear coordinates like polar coordinates or other systems. The object trajectories may be specified...

related to Generalized coordinates. Canonical coordinates Hamiltonian mechanics Virtual work Orthogonal coordinates Curvilinear coordinates Mass matrix Stiffness...

{\partial (f^{1},f^{2},f^{3})}{\partial (x^{1},x^{2},x^{3})}}.} In curvilinear coordinates, or more generally on a curved manifold, the gradient involves...

instrument Vector fields in cylindrical and spherical coordinates – Vector field representation in 3D curvilinear coordinate systems Yaw, pitch, and roll – Principal...

Geodetic coordinates are a type of curvilinear orthogonal coordinate system used in geodesy based on a reference ellipsoid. They include geodetic latitude...

write the quantum mechanical kinetic energy operator for such curvilinear coordinates, but it is hard to formulate a general theory applicable to any...

curl in curvilinear orthogonal coordinates, e.g. in Cartesian coordinates, spherical, cylindrical, or even elliptical or parabolic coordinates: ( curl...

(intrinsic definition) Tensor field Tensor density Tensors in curvilinear coordinates Mixed tensor Antisymmetric tensor Symmetric tensor Tensor operator...

moment of inertia tensor in rigid body dynamics. Sometimes general curvilinear coordinates are convenient, as in high-deformation continuum mechanics, or...

function of the variables x, y, z (a scalar field), and under a curvilinear change of coordinates, it transforms by the reciprocal of the Jacobian of the coordinate...

parameterize the surface of interest, S, by considering a system of curvilinear coordinates on S, like the latitude and longitude on a sphere. Let such a parameterization...