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CISC882, Basic Coordinate Transformations: Fall 2017 |
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Course Description: Coordinate transformations are essential in the application of computational techniques to real-world geometrical and dynamical problems. This course will examine the essential elements of the displacement of points and coordinate frames, mathematically and computationally. The main purpose of this course is to understand how one set of points can be transformed to another. We will begin by looking at "forward" problems of transforming points in a plane, then of points on the surface of a sphere, and then of points in space. We will then derive common ways of solving a "reverse" problem, which is finding a transformation between two sets of points. Towards the end of the course we will undertake a basic consideration of velocity, which is the rate at which a point changes over time. The course is now closed and will be offered again in 2018.
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