Saturday, September 1, 2018

Co-ordinate System 

      A coordinate system is a way of uniquely expressing the location of a point (or other  geometric object) on a manifold - for example, Euclidean space.  So if you want to  describe where something is then you need a coordinate system.


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1. Rectangle Co-ordinate System : -


    The most common coordinate system  for representing position in space is one based on    three perpendicular spatial axes generally designated x, y, and z.

Any point P may be represented by three signed numbers, usually written (x, y, z) where the coordinate is the perpendicular distance from the plane formed by the other two axes.
Often positions are specified by a position vector r which can be expressed in terms of the coordinate values and associated unit vectors. 


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[Figure-1.1  Rectangular coordinate system]

Although the entire coordinate system can be rotated, the relationship between the axes is fixed in what is called a right-handed coordinate system.

Cartesian to Cylindrical Coordinate Transformation:-




The images shown below are of rectangular co-ordinate system:-







2. Cylindrical Co-ordinate System : -

                                                               CylindricalCoordinates
[Figure-1.2  Cylindrical coordinate system]

The cylindrical coordinate system basically is a combination of the polar coordinate system xy plane with an additional z ¡coordinate vertically. In the cylindrical coordinate system, a point P (x,y,z); whose Cartesian coordinate is (x,y,z); is assigned by the ordered triple (r,z); where (r) is the polar coordinate of (x,y) the vertical projection along z¡axis of P onto xy plane.

 Cylindrical to Cartesian Coordinate Transformation:-

The images shown below are of cylindrical co-ordinate system:-





3. Spherical Co-ordinate System : -




                    [Figure-1.3  Spherical coordinate system]

Spherical coordinates are another generalization of 2-D polar coordinates. However, in this coordinate system, there are two angles, theta and phi. Let's consider a point P that is specified by coordinates (x,y,z) in a 3-D Cartesian coordinate system. The same point can be represented in spherical coordinates as (r,theta,phi,) where rtheta, and phi are functionally related to xy, and z.

Spherical to Cartesian Coordinate Transformation:-

X=r sin θ cos Φ,

Y=r sin θ sin Φ,
Z=z cos θ  



The images shown below are of spherical co-ordinate system:-





4. Electromagnetic Waves: -







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