Co-Ordinate System

  • What Is Rectangular Cartesian Co-Ordinates System?

    Rectangular cartesian co-ordinate system: In classical mechanics, it is considered that there are three dimensions in space. These three dimensions are represented by three axes in the cartesian co-ordinate system.…

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  • What Is The Plane Polar Co-Ordinate System?

    Plane polar co-ordinate system: In the study of two-dimensional cases, we observe the motion takes place in a plane. Sometimes the plane polar co-ordinate is very suitable for this purpose.…

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  • What Is Spherical Polar Co-Ordinate System? What Are Their Limits?

    Spherical polar co-ordinate: The spherical polar co-ordinate system is a method of representation, which helps to represent the co-ordinates of a point on the surface of a sphere. There are…

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  • Derive The Relation Between Three Dimensional Cartesian Co-ordinates And The Spherical Polar Co-ordinates.

    Relation between polar co-ordinates and three-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinates: Let us consider, x, y, and z to be the Cartesian co-ordinates of the point A as shown in the adjoining figure.…

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  • Find The Value Of Position Vector In Two-Dimensional And Three-Dimensional Cartesian Co-Ordinate System.

    Position vector in two-dimensional cartesian co-ordinate system: A particle is moving in a plane so we will use a two-dimensional co-ordinate system in this case to describe the motion of…

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  • Define Unit Vectors In Planer Motion In Terms Of Their Cartesian Counter-Parts.

    In a two-dimensional plane polar co-ordinate system, there are two unit vectors The radial unit vector  . The direction of this unit vector is along the radius vector   The…

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  • What Are The Unit Vectors In Spherical Polar Co-ordinates? Express These Unit Vectors In terms Of Unit Vectors In Three-Dimensional Cartesian Co-Ordinate System.

    Unit Vectors In Spherical Polar Co-Ordinate System: In spherical polar co-ordinate system, there are three unit vectors, Radial unit vector along the direction of radius vector . along the direction…

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  • Show That The Spherical Polar Unit Vectors Are Mutually Perpendicular To Each Other.

    Unit vectors in spherical polar co-ordinate system are mutually perpendicular to each other: Two unit vectors are said to be orthogonal to each other when the angles between these two…

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