Spherical polar coordinates partial

We are using partial derivatives here, because L depends on several variables. One of the points to notice about the laws of motion equations (9.7-9.9) is that the equations have exactly the same form regardless of the coordinate. One can show that this holds true for any coordinate system, like the spherical polar coordinate system in terms of r, [Pg.262]

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To calculate d4/d , we need to evaluate partial derivatives, such as U->4/7) , which measures the rate of change in energy with the order parameter. To do so we need to define generalized coordinates of the form ( , qi, , qN-1). Classical examples are spherical coordinates (r, 6, o), cylindrical coordinates (r, 0, z) or polar coordinates in 2D. Those coordinates are necessary to form a full set that determines... 

For example, the action of K is just multiplication by the eigenvalue —Kj. The action of the Dirac matrices / and a in the partial wave subspace is described by (110). Likewise, we can compute the action of a spherically symmetric potential in one of the angular momentum subspaces. It remains to observe that due to the factor r in (102) the operator djdr - 1/r in (which is part of expression for the Dirac operator in polar coordinates) simply becomes d/dr in L (0,oo) ... 

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