Cylindrical coordinates problem
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- Subject: [mg51337] Cylindrical coordinates problem
- From: "symbio" <symbio at h0tmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:37:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
I'm having a hard time understanding how Cylindrical Coordinates work in
Mathematica. I have several questions:
1. What is the expression for unit vectors in Cylindrical Coordinates in
Mathematica? For example is this correct: r_unit = {1,0,0}, phi_unit =
{0,1,0}, and z_unit = {0,0,1}???
2. How do you perform vector cross product of these unit vectors in
Cylindrical coordinates in Mathematica? for example: CrossProduct [ {1, 0,
0}, {0, 1, 0}] gives = {0, 0, 0} which is not the correct answer, then how
am I supposed to be doing it?
Can anyone please help?
thanks in advance!