Okay, so I'm working on using spherical harmonics to fit a model to some data. The thing is, everything can apparently be described as a "linear combination of spherical harmonics" but nobody is explaining in plain English what that means, at least to me! :D
I see lots of double sum...
Alex, thanks for your response. That makes sense, but then I can't figure out where the complex numbers come into play. If I have pairs of two variables and I know for example that they are coordinates in Cartesian 3D space and real numbers (with another value attached to them which I am...
What, "Physically" is a Spherical Harmonic?
I'm trying to use spherical harmonics to get an equation to fit a set of data I have. I'm fine with that, I've found a derivation of what the general form is and I crunch that into MATLAB. My problem is derivations online really don't help me...
Hello everyone,
I am a junior Mechanical engineering student with a midterm in my Vibrations I class on Thursday. I've been studying but I'm having some issues really nailing the concepts fundamentally. I feel like I'm stuck in a rut of doing the problem like in the example, but not really...