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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. Legendre polynomials - Wikipedia

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    The Legendre polynomials were first introduced in 1782 by Adrien-Marie Legendre [3] as the coefficients in the expansion of the Newtonian potential | ′ | = + ′ ′ ⁡ = = ′ + (⁡), where r and r′ are the lengths of the vectors x and x′ respectively and γ is the angle between those two vectors.

  4. Orthonormality - Wikipedia

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    The construction of orthogonality of vectors is motivated by a desire to extend the intuitive notion of perpendicular vectors to higher-dimensional spaces. In the Cartesian plane, two vectors are said to be perpendicular if the angle between them is 90° (i.e. if they form a right angle).

  5. 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.

  6. Orthogonal polynomials - Wikipedia

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    Orthogonal polynomials with matrices have either coefficients that are matrices or the indeterminate is a matrix. There are two popular examples: either the coefficients { a i } {\displaystyle \{a_{i}\}} are matrices or x {\displaystyle x} :

  7. 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} .

  8. Response surface methodology - Wikipedia

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    Orthogonality The property that allows individual effects of the k-factors to be estimated independently without (or with minimal) confounding. Also orthogonality provides minimum variance estimates of the model coefficient so that they are uncorrelated. Rotatability The property of rotating points of the design about the center of the factor ...

  9. Log–log plot - Wikipedia

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    The above procedure now is reversed to find the form of the function F(x) using its (assumed) known log–log plot. To find the function F, pick some fixed point (x 0, F 0), where F 0 is shorthand for F(x 0), somewhere on the straight line in the above graph, and further some other arbitrary point (x 1, F 1) on the same graph.