Re: General--Transformation of coordinates(from carteseian to polar)
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- Subject: [mg69034] Re: [mg69003] General--Transformation of coordinates(from carteseian to polar)
- From: "Adriano Pascoletti" <pascolet at dimi.uniud.it>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:24:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
madhukarrapaka at yahoo.com wrote .. > Hello friends, > > Is there any built in function for coordinate transformation(Cartesian > to polar; Cartesian to Spherical) in MATHEMATICA. Or shall we write our > own program to do this transformation. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Link to the forum page for this post: > http://www.mathematica-users.org/webMathematica/wiki/wiki.jsp?pageName=Special:Forum_ViewTopic&pid=12978#p12978 > Posted through http://www.mathematica-users.org [[postId=12978]] > > Load the standard package Calculus`VectorAnalysis` and use CoordinatesToCartesian[..., Spherical] In[1]:=<<Calculus`VectorAnalysis` In[2]:= CoordinatesToCartesian[{r, a, b}, Spherical] Out[2]= {r*Cos[b]*Sin[a], r*Sin[a]*Sin[b], r*Cos[a]} Adriano Pascoletti