Re: Dot Product in Cylindrical Coordinates
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- Subject: [mg69221] Re: Dot Product in Cylindrical Coordinates
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:39:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
have you used the Calculus`VectorAnalysis` package ??
and the DotProduct[] function ??
Regards
Jens
Sergio Miguel Terrazas Porras wrote:
> Hello group:
>
> When I calculate the dot product of vectors {1,Pi/4,0} and {2,0,1} in
> Cylindrical Coordinates Mathematica 5.1 returns the result Sqrt[2], when the
> result should be 2.
> What is going on ?
> Thanks
> Sergio Terrazas
>