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Dave Bowman wrote:
. . .l>locally orthogonal to another confocal nested set of hyperboloids of
BTW, in case anyone is interested, I solved the problem by making a
transformation to a coordinate system whose surfaces of constant
coordinate were a nested family of confocal oblate spheroids that were
revolution (of one sheet). . . .
Smythe's calculation ends with the statement:
"This problem can also be solved by oblate spheroidal harmonics (5.271)"
In section (5.271) Smythe solves several problems with oblate spheroidal
harmonics - but not the disk.
Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
www.velocity.net/~trebor