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Re: Range of "Spherical Coordinates" in SPHER_HARM [message #62824 is a reply to message #62822]

Sun, 12 October 2008 04:41

Karlo Janos
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Registered: July 2008

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Thanks for your comments!
My confusion was caused by the contradictory statements about theta and
phi. In my opinion/definition theta is the azimuthal angle (and _not_
'colatitudinal' as stated in the help document) and phi is the polar
angle (and _not_ 'longitudinal'). Thus I was not sure, if SPHER_HARM
uses a different definition of the spherical coordinate system, because
theta cannot have a range of 2*pi when phi has (or the other way round)
- regardless of any symmetry.

> And, as is usually the case with IDL, the easiest
> approach is to try it and see if you get what you want.

I should remind this slogan more often.
Greets

Karlo

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		Re: Range of "Spherical Coordinates" in SPHER_HARM By: jameskuyper on Sun, 12 October 2008 11:45
		Re: Range of "Spherical Coordinates" in SPHER_HARM By: Karlo Janos on Sun, 12 October 2008 04:41
		Re: Range of "Spherical Coordinates" in SPHER_HARM By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 09 October 2008 06:22
		Re: Range of "Spherical Coordinates" in SPHER_HARM By: jameskuyper on Thu, 09 October 2008 10:18
		Re: Range of "Spherical Coordinates" in SPHER_HARM By: Karlo Janos on Mon, 13 October 2008 00:22

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