Re: Polar vector field plot
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- Subject: [mg17259] Re: Polar vector field plot
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 02:34:44 -0400
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi Peter, probably you must do so because in non-cartesian coordinates the cartesian direction of the unit vectors depends on rho and phi You can still look on the vector field in the rho-phi space but it needs a lot of experience to understand form those pictures what happens in the real space. Hope that helps Jens Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > my apologies if this was asked before, but i couldn't find it on the > mathgroup search engine. > > i have a piecewise vector function of rho and phi, with components in the > rho hat and phi hat directions. > > can i plot the vector field as-is, or do i really need to convert the > components and unit vectors to cartesian? > > thanks! > pete