Oblate Spheroidal Coordinates
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Oblate Spheroidal Coordinates
- From: Boss Man <BOSS at pmel.noaa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1993 17:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
Dear mathgroup, I am interested in expressing the velocity vector in Oblate Spheroidal coordinates. I found that the package Calculaus'VectorAnalysis' indeed knows about oblate spheroidal coordinates. It can tell me how to transorm back and forth from Cartesian coordinates. It gives me scale factors. It does not tell me direction cosines between the unit vectors of cartesian and oblate spheroidal coordinates. Can anyone help? Thanks, Ed Boss NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory