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Past exam of the mathematical methods II course of the University of Oxford 2019 10 a Solution by
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Use for cylindrical radius, to distinguish it from spherical radius . In cylindrical coordinates , the azimuthal angle is measured from positive in the horizontal plane:Here and .
In spherical polar coordinates , take as the polar angle from positive and use the same azimuthal angle :The ranges are , and . The radial direction has horizontal projection of length , which explains the extra factor in . The azimuth is undefined on the polar axis, and both angles are nonunique at the origin; these are coordinate degeneracies rather than geometric singularities.
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