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  2. Spherical coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    For example, one sphere that is described in Cartesian coordinates with the equation x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = c 2 can be described in spherical coordinates by the simple equation r = c. (In this system—shown here in the mathematics convention—the sphere is adapted as a unit sphere, where the radius is set to unity and then can generally be ignored ...

  3. List of coordinate charts - Wikipedia

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    Coordinate charts are mathematical objects of topological manifolds, and they have multiple applications in theoretical and applied mathematics. When a differentiable structure and a metric are defined, greater structure exists, and this allows the definition of constructs such as integration and geodesics .

  4. Graph embedding - Wikipedia

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    An embedded graph uniquely defines cyclic orders of edges incident to the same vertex. The set of all these cyclic orders is called a rotation system.Embeddings with the same rotation system are considered to be equivalent and the corresponding equivalence class of embeddings is called combinatorial embedding (as opposed to the term topological embedding, which refers to the previous ...

  5. Stereographic projection - Wikipedia

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    Stereographic projection of the unit sphere from the north pole onto the plane z = 0, shown here in cross section. The unit sphere S 2 in three-dimensional space R 3 is the set of points (x, y, z) such that x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = 1. Let N = (0, 0, 1) be the "north pole", and let M be the rest of the sphere.

  6. Figure of the Earth - Wikipedia

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    Modern geodesy tends to retain the ellipsoid of revolution as a reference ellipsoid and treat triaxiality and pear shape as a part of the geoid figure: they are represented by the spherical harmonic coefficients , and , respectively, corresponding to degree and order numbers 2.2 for the triaxiality and 3.0 for the pear shape.

  7. Geodesic polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    Class I (b=0 or c=0): {3,q+} b,0 or {3,q+} 0,b represent a simple division with original edges being divided into b sub-edges. Class II (b=c): {3, q +} b , b are easier to see from the dual polyhedron { q ,3} with q -gonal faces first divided into triangles with a central point, and then all edges are divided into b sub-edges.

  8. Plot (graphics) - Wikipedia

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    The graphs can be used together to determine the economic equilibrium (essentially, to solve an equation). Simple graph used for reading values: the bell-shaped normal or Gaussian probability distribution, from which, for example, the probability of a man's height being in a specified range can be derived, given data for the adult male population.

  9. Atlas (topology) - Wikipedia

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    A transition map provides a way of comparing two charts of an atlas. To make this comparison, we consider the composition of one chart with the inverse of the other. This composition is not well-defined unless we restrict both charts to the intersection of their domains of definition. (For example, if we have a chart of Europe and a chart of ...