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Vector Analysis Formulae Guide

This document provides a compilation of vector analysis formulae for students studying electrical and computer engineering at Ateneo de Naga University. It includes vector relationships and operations such as dot products, cross products, and differential operators in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems. Various coordinate transformations are also summarized. The document aims to help students in the vector analysis course, which is a prerequisite for electromagnetics.

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Vector Analysis Formulae Guide

This document provides a compilation of vector analysis formulae for students studying electrical and computer engineering at Ateneo de Naga University. It includes vector relationships and operations such as dot products, cross products, and differential operators in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems. Various coordinate transformations are also summarized. The document aims to help students in the vector analysis course, which is a prerequisite for electromagnetics.

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Vector Analysis Formulae Compilation

A guide in ECEM315

This compilation of formulae can help the students of BS ECE in Ateneo de Naga University,
College of Engineering, Department of ECE and CpE who are taking up Vector Analysis
which is a prerequisite for Electromagnetics subject.
John Joshua F. Montaez
20-Aug-12

Summary of Vector Relationships


Cartesian Coordinates

Cylindrical Coordinates

x, y, z

r, , z

dx dy dz

r dr d dz

Coordinates Variables
Vector representation, A=
Magnitude of A=

Spherical Coordinates
R, ,

Position vector
Base vectors
properties

Dot product,
Cross product,
Differential length, dl=
Differential
surface areas
Differential volume

[JJFM] [BS ECE] [Revised][20 August 2012]

dR d d

2|P a ge

Coordinate Transformation
Transformation

Coordinate Variables

Unit Vector

Vector Components

Cartesian to
Cylindrical

z=z
Cylindrical to
Cartesian

z=z
Cartesian to
Spherical

Spherical to
Cartesian
Cylindrical to
Spherical

Spherical to
Cylindrical

[JJFM] [BS ECE] [Revised][20 August 2012]

3|P a ge

Distance between Two Points


Coordinate System
Cartesian

Formula

Cylindrical

Spherical

[JJFM] [BS ECE] [Revised][20 August 2012]

4|P a ge

Dot Product Relationships


Coordinate System
Cylindrical

Rectangular

Spherical

Spherical

Cylindrical

Rectangular

Dot product

[JJFM] [BS ECE] [Revised][20 August 2012]

1
0

5|P a ge

Gradient, Divergence, Curl and Laplacian Operators


Operation
Gradient

Cartesian

Cylindrical

Spherical

Divergence
Curl

Laplace

Gradient

Properties of the Gradient Operator


1.
2.
3.

[JJFM] [BS ECE] [Revised][20 August 2012]

Divergence

divergence theorem]

Curl

Vector identities involving curl


1.
2.
3.
k h

6|P a ge

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