Conical Coordinates

Arfken (1970) and Morse and Feshbach (1953) use slightly different definitions of these coordinates.The system used in Mathematica (Wolfram Research, Inc., Champaign, Illinois) is

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References

Arfken, G. ``Conical Coordinates (, , ).'' §2.16 in Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 2nd ed. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, pp. 118-119, 1970.

Byerly, W. E. An Elementary Treatise on Fourier's Series, and Spherical, Cylindrical, and Ellipsoidal Harmonics, with Applications to Problems in Mathematical Physics. New York: Dover, p. 263, 1959.

Morse, P. M. and Feshbach, H. Methods of Theoretical Physics, Part I. New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 659, 1953.

Spence, R. D. ``Angular Momentum in Sphero-Conal Coordinates.'' Amer. J. Phys. 27, 329-335, 1959.

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