What Are Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates

An orthogonal coordinate system is a system of curvilinear coordinates in which each family of surfaces intersects the others at right angles.

What is orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system?

When the system of curvilinear coordinates is such that the three co- ordinate surfaces are mutually perpendicular at each point, it is termed an. orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system. In this event the unit tangent. vectors to the coordinate curves are also mutually perpendicular at each.

What is orthogonal curvilinear coordinate with determine scalar factor?

The scale factor gives a measure of how a change in the coordinate changes the position of a point. Two commonly-used sets of orthogonal curvilinear coordinates are cylindrical polar coordinates and spherical polar coordinates.