- geometry, a
coordinate system is a
system that uses one or more numbers, or
coordinates, to
uniquely determine the
position of the
points or
other geometric...
- on
Earth to be
specified by a set of numbers,
letters or symbols. The
coordinates are
often chosen such that one of the
numbers represents a
vertical position...
-
coordinates are sets of
coordinates on
phase space which can be used to
describe a
physical system at any
given point in time.
Canonical coordinates are...
-
coordinates or
projective coordinates,
introduced by
August Ferdinand Möbius in his 1827 work Der
barycentrische Calcül, are a
system of
coordinates used...
-
standard notation ISO 80000-2,
which su****des ISO 31-11, for
spherical coordinates (other
sources may
reverse the
definitions of θ and φ): The
polar angle...
- angle, or
inclination angle. The use of
symbols and the
order of the
coordinates differs between sources. In one
system frequently encountered in physics...
- the
chord for each angle, and
there are
references to his
using polar coordinates in
establishing stellar positions. In On Spirals,
Archimedes describes...
- of the
rigid body
dynamics of
multibody systems, the term
generalized coordinates refers to the
parameters that
describe the
configuration of the system...
-
faces the point. The
origin of the
system is the
point where all
three coordinates can be
given as zero. This is the
intersection between the reference...
-
affine coordinates of p over the
affine coordinate system (o, v1, ..., vn). Example: In
Euclidean geometry,
Cartesian coordinates are
affine coordinates relative...