Re: [sage-devel] Differentials are defines

2011-02-23 Thread John Cremona
This would be better asked on sage-support or asksage. John On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Dox wrote: > Hi group! > I'm trying to change the metric from Euclidean to Spherical. I know there > are several ways of doing so, but I'd like to do something like this: > > Define the new coordinates v

[sage-devel] Differentials are defines

2011-02-23 Thread Dox
Hi group! I'm trying to change the metric from Euclidean to Spherical. I know there are several ways of doing so, but I'd like to do something like this: 1. Define the new coordinates var('phi') 2. Give the relation between old and new coordinates x = cos(phi) and y = sin(phi) 3. Fi