Re: CrossProduct in Spherical Coordinates
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- Subject: [mg75319] Re: CrossProduct in Spherical Coordinates
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
consider you second vector: {0,1,0}. This is a vector with zero length.
hope this helps, Daniel
gogoant06 at yahoo.com.hk wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am really new to mathematica and I have met a damn simple problem.
>
> In[1]:=
> <<Calculus`VectorAnalysis`
>
> In[2]:=
> CrossProduct[{1,0,0},{0,1,0},Spherical]
>
> Out[2]=
> {0,0,0}
>
> Why? Isn't the result supposed to be {0,0,1}, even in spherical
> coordinates?
>
> best regards,
> lion
>
>