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• Subject: [mg13117] coordinate transformation
• From: "S.-Svante Wellershoff" <svante.wellershoff at physik.fu-berlin.de>
• Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 03:44:20 -0400
• Organization: FB Physik, FU Berlin
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Can someone explain me, how to use mathematica for transformations
between
different coordinate systems?

Like (x,y,z) in carthesian equals (r sin t cos p, r sin t sin p, r cos
t) in spherical system.

Thanks, Svante

p.s.: hope its no faq!

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