Re: s-dimensional spherical coordinates

On 2007-01-24, Daniel Grubb <grubb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is the physicist's (r,theta,phi) rather than the mathematician's.

Hmm... so let me see if I get things right. The figure on this
page is the physicist's representation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinates

Right?

The general formulas given on the following page are the formulas for the
mathematician's interpretaion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersphere

Right?


Now I am going to try to find out how the figure giving the
angles and axes in 3D (*) would look like for the case of the
mathematician's interpretation. I am going to think about how
the axes are setup and how the angles should be drawn.

Feel free to share your thoughts with me :-)

Best wishes,
Bart

(*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Spherical_Coordinates.png

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