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| Title: | Velocity and Acceleration in Oblate Spheroidal Coordinates |
| Authors: | Howusu, S. X. K.
Omaghali, E. J. N.
Musongong, F.F. |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2004 |
| Publisher: | Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences |
| Series/Report no.: | Vol. 7;No. 2; Pp 142-148 |
| Abstract: | The expressions for instantaneous velocity and acceleration in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates and their applications in mechanics are well known. It is, however, now well known that the planets and sun and all rotating astronomical bodies are more precisely spheroidal in geometry. And their fields as well as the motions of test particles in them require the use of spheroidal coordinates. Consequently in this paper we derive the expressions for instantaneous velocity and acceleration in oblate spheroidal coordinates for application to the motions of test particles in the fields of the spheroidal astronomical bodies. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1367 |
| Appears in Collections: | Physics
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