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Graduate Minkowski metric - to sperical coordinates transformation
ok, nevermind, i found a paper that confirmed my result is okay: http://web.ihep.su/library/pubs/prep1997/ps/97-36a.pdf If anyone was looking for it- soi
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Minkowski metric - to sperical coordinates transformation
OK, great thanks for your help. To look if I understand it, i calculated it using formula http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/math/f/f/d/ffdb897152259f912ad9c4d5ab3d474d.png And i got what you got (not surprisingly) but with -1 everywhere: gtt=-1 grr=1 gθθ=r^2 gββ=r^2(sinθ)^2...- soi
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Partial Derivative Homework: Prove & Solve
Homework Statement Hey, i ve got problem with a few partial derivative problems. 1.I have a function T(x,t) Prove that dT/dt=∂T/∂t +∂T/∂x dx/dt 2.Let u(x,y) and y(x,u) be continous, differentiable functions. Prove that ∂u/∂z=∂u/∂z ∂y/∂z 3 Let r(q1,q2,...qn) be a function of place...- soi
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- Derivative Partial Partial derivative
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- Forum: Calculus and Beyond Homework Help
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Graduate Minkowski metric - to sperical coordinates transformation
I need to transform cartesian coordinates to spherical ones for Minkowski metric. Taking: (x0, x1, x2, x3) = (t, r, α, β) And than write down all Christoffel symbols for it. I really have no clue, but from other examples I've seen i should use chain rule in first and symmetry of...- soi
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- Coordinates Metric Minkowski Transformation
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity