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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. Projection (linear algebra) - Wikipedia

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    A square matrix is called a projection matrix if it is equal to its square, i.e. if =. [2]: p. 38 A square matrix is called an orthogonal projection matrix if = = for a real matrix, and respectively = = for a complex matrix, where denotes the transpose of and denotes the adjoint or Hermitian transpose of .

  4. Rotation matrix - Wikipedia

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    If we condense the skew entries into a vector, (x,y,z), then we produce a 90° rotation around the x-axis for (1, 0, 0), around the y-axis for (0, 1, 0), and around the z-axis for (0, 0, 1). The 180° rotations are just out of reach; for, in the limit as x → ∞ , ( x , 0, 0) does approach a 180° rotation around the x axis, and similarly for ...

  5. Orthogonal matrix - Wikipedia

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    The linear least squares problem is to find the x that minimizes ‖ Ax − b ‖, which is equivalent to projecting b to the subspace spanned by the columns of A. Assuming the columns of A (and hence R) are independent, the projection solution is found from A T Ax = A T b. Now A T A is square (n × n) and invertible, and also equal to R T R.

  6. Orthogonality (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the geometric notion of perpendicularity to the linear algebra of bilinear forms. Two elements u and v of a vector space with bilinear form B {\displaystyle B} are orthogonal when B ( u , v ) = 0 {\displaystyle B(\mathbf {u} ,\mathbf {v} )=0} .

  7. Spherical harmonics - Wikipedia

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    The expansion coefficients are the analogs of Fourier coefficients, and can be obtained by multiplying the above equation by the complex conjugate of a spherical harmonic, integrating over the solid angle Ω, and utilizing the above orthogonality relationships. This is justified rigorously by basic Hilbert space theory.

  8. Orthogonality - Wikipedia

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    The line segments AB and CD are orthogonal to each other. In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the geometric notion of perpendicularity.Whereas perpendicular is typically followed by to when relating two lines to one another (e.g., "line A is perpendicular to line B"), [1] orthogonal is commonly used without to (e.g., "orthogonal lines A and B").

  9. Rotation of axes in two dimensions - Wikipedia

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    The old coordinates (x, y, z) of a point Q are related to its new coordinates (x′, y′, z′) by [14] [′ ′ ′] = [⁡ ⁡ ⁡ ⁡] []. Generalizing to any finite number of dimensions, a rotation matrix A {\displaystyle A} is an orthogonal matrix that differs from the identity matrix in at most four elements.