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Daring Attack

Background

Building on our general introduction to Direction Cosines in the context of orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems, and on our previous development of the so-called T6 (concentric elliptic) coordinate system, here we take a somewhat daring attack on this problem, mixing our approach to identifying the expression for the third curvilinear coordinate. Broadly speaking, this entire study is motivated by our desire to construct a fully analytically prescribable model of a nonuniform-density ellipsoidal configuration that is an analog to Riemann S-Type ellipsoids.

Direction Cosine Components for T6 Coordinates
<math>~n</math>	<math>~\lambda_n</math>	<math>~h_n</math>	<math>~\frac{\partial \lambda_n}{\partial x}</math>	<math>~\frac{\partial \lambda_n}{\partial y}</math>	<math>~\frac{\partial \lambda_n}{\partial z}</math>	<math>~\gamma_{n1}</math>	<math>~\gamma_{n2}</math>	<math>~\gamma_{n3}</math>
<math>~1</math>	<math>~(x^2 + q^2 y^2 + p^2 z^2)^{1 / 2} </math>	<math>~\lambda_1 \ell_{3D}</math>	<math>~\frac{x}{\lambda_1}</math>	<math>~\frac{q^2 y}{\lambda_1}</math>	<math>~\frac{p^2 z}{\lambda_1}</math>	<math>~(x) \ell_{3D}</math>	<math>~(q^2 y)\ell_{3D}</math>	<math>~(p^2z) \ell_{3D}</math>
<math>~2</math>	---	---	---	---	---	<math>~\ell_q \ell_{3D} (xp^2z)</math>	<math>~\ell_q \ell_{3D} (q^2 y p^2z) </math>	<math>~- (x^2 + q^4y^2)\ell_q \ell_{3D}</math>
<math>~3</math>	<math>~\tan^{-1}\biggl( \frac{y^{1/q^2}}{x} \biggr)</math>	<math>~\frac{xq^2 y \ell_q}{\sin\lambda_3 \cos\lambda_3}</math>	<math>~-\frac{\sin\lambda_3 \cos\lambda_3}{x}</math>	<math>~+\frac{\sin\lambda_3 \cos\lambda_3}{q^2y}</math>	<math>~0</math>	<math>~-q^2 y \ell_q</math>	<math>~x\ell_q</math>	<math>~0</math>
<math>~\ell_{3D}</math> <math>~\equiv</math> <math>~[x^2 + q^4 y^2 + p^2 z^2]^{- 1/ 2 }</math> <math>~\ell_q</math> <math>~\equiv</math> <math>~[x^2 + q^4 y^2 ]^{- 1/ 2 }</math>

As before, let's adopt the first-coordinate expression,

<math>~\lambda_1</math>

<math>~\equiv</math>

<math>~(x^2 + q^2 y^2 + p^2 z^2)^{1 / 2} \, ,</math>

but for the third-coordinate expression we will abandon the trigonometric expression and instead simply use,

<math>~\lambda_3</math>

<math>~\equiv</math>

<math>~\frac{y^{1/q^2}}{x} \, .</math>

This modified third-coordinate expression means that the last row of the above table changes, as follows.

Daring Attack
<math>~n</math>	<math>~\lambda_n</math>	<math>~h_n</math>	<math>~\frac{\partial \lambda_n}{\partial x}</math>	<math>~\frac{\partial \lambda_n}{\partial y}</math>	<math>~\frac{\partial \lambda_n}{\partial z}</math>	<math>~\gamma_{n1}</math>	<math>~\gamma_{n2}</math>	<math>~\gamma_{n3}</math>
<math>~1</math>	<math>~(x^2 + q^2 y^2 + p^2 z^2)^{1 / 2} </math>	<math>~\lambda_1 \ell_{3D}</math>	<math>~\frac{x}{\lambda_1}</math>	<math>~\frac{q^2 y}{\lambda_1}</math>	<math>~\frac{p^2 z}{\lambda_1}</math>	<math>~(x) \ell_{3D}</math>	<math>~(q^2 y)\ell_{3D}</math>	<math>~(p^2z) \ell_{3D}</math>
<math>~2</math>	---	---	---	---	---	<math>~\ell_q \ell_{3D} (xp^2z)</math>	<math>~\ell_q \ell_{3D} (q^2 y p^2z) </math>	<math>~- (x^2 + q^4y^2)\ell_q \ell_{3D}</math>
<math>~3</math>	<math>~\frac{y^{1/q^2}}{x} </math>	<math>~\frac{xq^2 y \ell_q}{\lambda_3}</math>	<math>~-\frac{\lambda_3}{x}</math>	<math>~+\frac{\lambda_3}{q^2y}</math>	<math>~0</math>	<math>~-q^2 y \ell_q</math>	<math>~x\ell_q</math>	<math>~0</math>

Notice that the direction cosine functions for the (as yet, unknown) second-coordinate function remain the same. This is because the direction-cosine functions associated with both <math>~\lambda_1</math> and <math>~\lambda_3</math> remain unchanged, so it must be true that the cross product of the first and third unit vectors leads to the same components for the second unit vector.

New Approach

The surface of an ellipsoid with semi-major axes (a, b, c) is defined by the expression,

<math>~1</math>

<math>~=</math>

<math>~\biggl( \frac{x}{a}\biggr)^2 + \biggl( \frac{y}{b}\biggr)^2 + \biggl( \frac{z}{c}\biggr)^2 \, .</math>

This is identical to our expression for <math>~\lambda_1</math> if we make the associations,

<math>~a = \lambda_1 \, ,</math>

<math>~b = \frac{\lambda_1}{q} \ ,</math>

<math>~c = \frac{\lambda_1}{p} \, .</math>

Now, given that <math>~\lambda_3</math> does not functionally depend on <math>~z</math>, let's consider that the choice of <math>~z</math> is tightly associated with the specification of the second coordinate, <math>~\lambda_2</math>. Specifically, let's adopt the definition,

<math>~\lambda_2^2</math>

<math>~\equiv</math>

<math>~1 - \biggl( \frac{z}{c}\biggr)^2 \, ,</math>

in which case, we see that,

<math>~\biggl( \frac{x}{a}\biggr)^2 + \biggl( \frac{y}{b}\biggr)^2 = \lambda_2^2 \, ,</math>

and,

<math>~z^2 = c^2 (1 - \lambda_2^2) = \frac{\lambda_1^2 (1 - \lambda_2^2)}{p^2} \, .</math>

<math>~z^2</math>

<math>~=</math>

<math>~c^2(1-\lambda_2^2) = \frac{\lambda_1^2(1-\lambda_2^2)}{p^2} \, ,</math>

and,

<math>~\biggl( \frac{x}{a}\biggr)^2 + \biggl( \frac{y}{b}\biggr)^2 </math>	<math>~=</math>	<math>~ \lambda_2^2 </math>
<math>~\Rightarrow ~~~ x^2 + q^2 y^2 </math>	<math>~=</math>	<math>~ \lambda_1^2 \lambda_2^2 \, .</math>

See Also

• Direction Cosines

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