what are the types of coordinate systems?

Question

what are the types of coordinate systems?

Answer 1

Their are Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical. Also in Linear Algebra their is any basis the spans the vector space you are concerned with.

Answer 2

So what is a coordinate system? The simple answer is that it is an agreed upon way of representing locations. Thus the coordinate systems depend heavily upon the application in which it is to be used.

Like there are various coordinate systems for georeferencing, in other words for locating a particular place or point on the world.



In mathemetics there are cartesian and polar cordinate systems defined as 2D and 3D.



Again if you consider reproducing a real life scenerio on a tv or computer screen, certain other cordinate systems are used such an Local Coordinate system, World Coordinate system, Normalized Coordinate system, Device Coordinate system.



So if you want to know more about these there are various sites. do specify the application also as I said that the coordinate systems depend on the application in which it is to be used.

Answer 3

"The coordinates of a point are the components of a tuple of numbers used to represent the location of the point in the plane or space. A coordinate system is a plane or space where the origin and axes are defined so that coordinates can be measured."



This, and more, including examples of different coordinate systems, is available from Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinates_%28mathematics%29



Hope this helps!

Answer 4

In two dimensional space there are cartesian, polar, intrinsic, etc.

In three dimensional space polar coordinates may be extended in two popular ways, namely spherical and cylindrical.

We may also extend most coordinate systems to n dimensional space, though operations become more difficult.

Answer 5

cartesian

polar



there are others.