Circular torus coordinates
ID: circular-torus-coordinates
For a ring torus of major radius , circular torus coordinates use distance and angle in the circular cross-section, and azimuth around the central axis. The coordinate tangent vectors are the three partial derivatives of the displayed position. They are mutually orthogonal, with scale factors of orthogonal coordinates . For their ordered Jacobian determinant is , so . At the cross-section angle degenerates. These are tubular coordinates for a circular torus, rather than the confocal coordinate convention also called toroidal coordinates.
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