Re: Integration variables
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- Subject: [mg78348] Re: Integration variables
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi, you have to write out d Cos[th] as -Sin[th] d th Regards Jens mattew wrote: > Hi everybody, Mathematica gives us the possibility to use spherical coordinates (r,Ttheta,Pphi): I'm trying to write an integral in the polar angle Ttheta of the form: > > Integral in [-1,1] Ttheta dCos(Ttheta) > > where Ttheta is the polar angle and the integration variable is the cosine of Ttheta in the interval [-1,1]. > > I got the following error: > > ntegrate::ivar: "Cos[Ttheta] is not a valid variable." > > Does anyone knows the reason for that? > > p.s: It happens with any system of coordinates, actually. >