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Introduction d to

CurvilinearCoordinates
and dwriting iti

EquilibriumEquationsinthem

Objectives:
1. Toderivetheinfinitesimalstraincomponents q equations q (balance ( oflinear andequilibrium momentum)incylindricalandspherical coordinates. coordinates 2. Toderiveafewnecessaryexpressionsin general lcurvilinear l coordinates.

VolumeElementsand TheirEquilibrium

Equilibriumofatypicalelementin CylindricalCoordinate

Thenecessaryquantities

Fewresultsincylindricalcoordinates

Fewresultsincylindricalcoordinates

Similarresultsinsphericalcoordinates

Atypicalcurvilinearcoordinate system:EllipticCoordinateSystem

GeneralCurvilinearCoordinateSystem

GeneralCurvilinearCoordinateSystem

GeneralCurvilinearCoordinateSystem

GeneralCurvilinearCoordinateSystem
Wayof RepresentingVectors:

GeneralCurvilinearCoordinateSystem
PositionVector:

InfinitesimalVolume Element:

InfinitesimalLine Element:

Iforthogonal:

GeneralCurvilinearCoordinateSystem
ExpressionsforDifferentialOperatorsinOrthogonalCoordinates
GradientofaScalarField:

GeneralCurvilinearCoordinateSystem
ExpressionsforDifferentialOperatorsinOrthogonalCoordinates

CylindricalCoordinates

CylindricalCoordinates

SphericalCoordinates

Twoimportantcalculations:

incylindricalpolarandsphericalpolarcoordinates

CylindricalCoordinate

GradientofaVectorField:

CylindricalCoordinate

CylindricalCoordinate

CylindricalCoordinate
DivergenceofaTensorField:

CylindricalCoordinate
DivergenceofaTensorField:

BalanceofLinearMomentum
CylindricalCoordinate

SphericalCoordinate

BalanceofLinearMomentum
SphericalCoordinate

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