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    parabolic cylinders. Parabolic cylindrical coordinates have found many applications, e.g., the potential theory of edges. The parabolic cylindrical coordinates...
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    Parabolic coordinates are a two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system in which the coordinate lines are confocal parabolas. A three-dimensional version...
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    variables is used on Laplace's equation when expressed in parabolic cylindrical coordinates. The above equation may be brought into two distinct forms...
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  • parable. Parabolic may refer to: In mathematics: In elementary mathematics, especially elementary geometry: Parabolic coordinates Parabolic cylindrical coordinates...
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  • complete solution for S {\displaystyle S} . The Hamiltonian in parabolic cylindrical coordinates can be written H = p σ 2 + p τ 2 2 m ( σ 2 + τ 2 ) + p z 2...
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    an element of the cylindrical surface. A solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes is called a (solid) cylinder. The line segments...
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  • parabolic coordinates. They possess elliptic paraboloids as one-coordinate surfaces. As such, they should be distinguished from parabolic cylindrical coordinates...
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    A parabolic antenna is an antenna that uses a parabolic reflector, a curved surface with the cross-sectional shape of a parabola, to direct the radio...
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     θ, z). Spherical coordinates take this a step further by converting the pair of cylindrical coordinates (r, z) to polar coordinates (ρ, φ) giving a triple...
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  • Cartesian coordinates, one has to solve a (difficult) two dimensional boundary value problem involving a partial differential equation, but in cylindrical coordinates...
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