rectangular coordinates
Britishplural noun
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Figure 5.81 The transformation from rectangular coordinates to cylindrical coordinates can be treated as a change of variables from region G in rθz-space to region D in xyz-space.
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This is exactly the same process that we followed in Introduction to Parametric Equations and Polar Coordinates to convert from polar coordinates to two-dimensional rectangular coordinates.
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In this section we convert triple integrals in rectangular coordinates into a triple integral in either cylindrical or spherical coordinates.
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Convert the rectangular coordinates ⎛−1, 1, 6⎞ to both spherical and cylindrical coordinates.
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These four marks serve to turn the plate exactly 90 degrees so as to measure rectangular coordinates.
From Astronomical Instruments and Accessories by William Gaertner and Company
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