Wolfram Error - Spherical Unit Vectors Check

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Folks, I think Wolfram has a mistake published here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCoordinates.html

Their spherical unit vectors (for theta and phi) seem to be erroneous. Can someone double check this?


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Syrus said:

Homework Statement



Folks, I think Wolfram has a mistake published here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCoordinates.html

Their spherical unit vectors (for theta and phi) seem to be erroneous. Can someone double check this?


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The Attempt at a Solution


I doubt it's wrong. But there is more than one convention for what theta and phi mean in spherical coordinates. mathworld explains which one it's using. What's yours?