Confused by velocity in spherical coordinates

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Start date Oct 18, 2010
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The thinker

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Oct 18, 2010

Hello,

I am trying to work out how you derive velocity in terms of spherical coordinates, could anyone point me in the direction of a simple and quite explicit derivation. I keep getting confused!

Thanks.

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dgOnPhys

Oct 21, 2010

Try http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCoordinates.html" eq 71-73

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