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Hi all.
I'm struggling with taking dot products between vectors in spherical coordinates. I just cannot figure out how to take the dot product between two arbitrary spherical-coordinate vectors ##\bf{v_1}## centered in ##(r_1,\theta_1,\phi_1)## and ##\bf{v_2}## centered in ##(r_2,\theta_2,\phi_2)## without converting them to cartesian coordinates first.
Could you guys please help me? The main issue is that the basis for ##v_1## and ##v_2## are different so everything becomes super complicated.
Thanks
I'm struggling with taking dot products between vectors in spherical coordinates. I just cannot figure out how to take the dot product between two arbitrary spherical-coordinate vectors ##\bf{v_1}## centered in ##(r_1,\theta_1,\phi_1)## and ##\bf{v_2}## centered in ##(r_2,\theta_2,\phi_2)## without converting them to cartesian coordinates first.
Could you guys please help me? The main issue is that the basis for ##v_1## and ##v_2## are different so everything becomes super complicated.
Thanks
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