Two-center bipolar coordinates

Two-center bipolar coordinates.

In mathematics, two-center bipolar coordinates is a coordinate system based on two coordinates which give distances from two fixed centers and .[1] This system is very useful in some scientific applications (e.g. calculating the electric field of a dipole on a plane).[2][3]

  1. ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Bipolar coordinates". MathWorld.
  2. ^ R. Price, The Periodic Standing Wave Approximation: Adapted coordinates and spectral methods.
  3. ^ The periodic standing-wave approximation: nonlinear scalar fields, adapted coordinates, and the eigenspectral method.