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  2. Orthogonal coordinates - Wikipedia

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    A conformal map acting on a rectangular grid. Note that the orthogonality of the curved grid is retained. While vector operations and physical laws are normally easiest to derive in Cartesian coordinates, non-Cartesian orthogonal coordinates are often used instead for the solution of various problems, especially boundary value problems, such as those arising in field theories of quantum ...

  3. Desmos - Wikipedia

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    The name Desmos came from the Greek word δεσμός which means a bond or a tie. [6] In May 2022, Amplify acquired the Desmos curriculum and teacher.desmos.com. Some 50 employees joined Amplify. Desmos Studio was spun off as a separate public benefit corporation focused on building calculator products and other math tools. [7]

  4. Bipolar coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Bipolar coordinates are a two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system based on the Apollonian circles. [1] There is also a third system, based on two poles ( biangular coordinates ). The term "bipolar" is further used on occasion to describe other curves having two singular points (foci), such as ellipses , hyperbolas , and Cassini ovals .

  5. Orthogonality - Wikipedia

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    The line segments AB and CD are perpendicular to each other. In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the geometric notion of perpendicularity.Although many authors use the two terms perpendicular and orthogonal interchangeably, the term perpendicular is more specifically used for lines and planes that intersect to form a right angle, whereas orthogonal is used in generalizations ...

  6. Vector projection - Wikipedia

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    The vector projection (also known as the vector component or vector resolution) of a vector a on (or onto) a nonzero vector b is the orthogonal projection of a onto a straight line parallel to b. The projection of a onto b is often written as proj b ⁡ a {\displaystyle \operatorname {proj} _{\mathbf {b} }\mathbf {a} } or a ∥ b .

  7. Spherical coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    To define a spherical coordinate system, one must designate an origin point in space, O, and two orthogonal directions: the zenith reference direction and the azimuth reference direction. These choices determine a reference plane that is typically defined as containing the point of origin and the x– and y–axes , either of which may be ...

  8. Orthogonal basis - Wikipedia

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    The concept of orthogonality may be extended to a vector space over any field of characteristic not 2 equipped with a quadratic form ⁠ ⁠.Starting from the observation that, when the characteristic of the underlying field is not 2, the associated symmetric bilinear form , = ((+) ()) allows vectors and to be defined as being orthogonal with respect to when ⁠ (+) () = ⁠.

  9. Orthogonal functions - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, orthogonal functions belong to a function space that is a vector space equipped with a bilinear form. When the function space has an interval as the domain , the bilinear form may be the integral of the product of functions over the interval: