rectangular coordinates
Britishplural noun
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Before we end this section, we present a couple of examples that can illustrate the conversion from rectangular coordinates to cylindrical coordinates and from rectangular coordinates to spherical coordinates.
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Convert the rectangular coordinates ⎛−1, 1, 6⎞ to both spherical and cylindrical coordinates.
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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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Earlier in this chapter we showed how to convert a double integral in rectangular coordinates into a double integral in polar coordinates in order to deal more conveniently with problems involving circular symmetry.
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In oblique as well as rectangular coordinates equations of the second degree represent conics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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