Working with different coordinate systems

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Does anyone know of a good book for relearning and working with different cooridinate systems

like
polar
cylindricaly
spherical
the typicall engineering stuff...
 

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koab1mjr said:
Does anyone know of a good book for relearning and working with different cooridinate systems

like
polar
cylindricaly
spherical
the typicall engineering stuff...

The wikipedia entry is a pretty good intro, and it has references listed at the end:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate_systems

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