Planar Space
Let
be a locally
Euclidean
coordinate system. Then
(1)
Now plug in
(2)
(3)
to obtain
(4)
Reading off the
Coefficients
from
(5)
gives
(6)
(7)
(8)
Making a change of coordinates
gives
(9)
(10)
(11)
© 1996-9
Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25