Anexo:Tabla en coordenadas cilíndricas y esféricas

Esta es una lista de algunas fórmulas de cálculo vectorial de empleo corriente trabajando con varios sistemas de coordenadas.

Operación	coordenadas cartesianas (x,y,z)	coordenadas cilíndricas (ρ,φ,z)	coordenadas esféricas (r,θ,φ)
Definición de las coordenadas		$[\begin{array}{ccc}x& =& \rho \cos \varphi \\ y& =& \rho \mathrm{sen}\varphi \\ z& =& z\end{array}$	$[\begin{array}{ccc}x& =& r\mathrm{sen}\theta \cos \varphi \\ y& =& r\mathrm{sen}\theta \mathrm{sen}\varphi \\ z& =& r\cos \theta \end{array}$
		$[\begin{array}{ccc}\rho & =& \sqrt{x^2+y^2}\\ \varphi & =& \arctan (y/x)\\ z& =& z\end{array}$	$[\begin{array}{ccc}r& =& \sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}\\ \theta & =& \arctan ((\sqrt{x^2+y^2})/z)\\ \varphi & =& \arctan (y/x)\end{array}$
$𝐀$	$A_x\widehat{𝐱}+A_y\widehat{𝐲}+A_z\widehat{𝐳}$	$A_{\rho }\hat{\mathit{\rho }}+A_{\varphi }\hat{\mathit{\varphi }}+A_z\widehat{𝒛}$	$A_r\widehat{𝒓}+A_{\theta }\hat{\mathit{\theta }}+A_{\varphi }\hat{\mathit{\varphi }}$
$\mathrm{\nabla }f$	$\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\widehat{𝐱}+\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}\widehat{𝐲}+\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\widehat{𝐳}$	$\frac{\partial f}{\partial \rho }\hat{\mathit{\rho }}+\frac{1}{\rho }\frac{\partial f}{\partial \varphi }\hat{\mathit{\varphi }}+\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\widehat{𝒛}$	$\frac{\partial f}{\partial r}\widehat{𝒓}+\frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial f}{\partial \theta }\hat{\mathit{\theta }}+\frac{1}{r\mathrm{sen}\theta }\frac{\partial f}{\partial \varphi }\hat{\mathit{\varphi }}$
$\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot 𝐀$	$\frac{\partial A_x}{\partial x}+\frac{\partial A_y}{\partial y}+\frac{\partial A_z}{\partial z}$	$\frac{1}{\rho }\frac{\partial \rho A_{\rho }}{\partial \rho }+\frac{1}{\rho }\frac{\partial A_{\varphi }}{\partial \varphi }+\frac{\partial A_z}{\partial z}$	$\frac{1}{r^2}\frac{\partial r^2{A}_r}{\partial r}+\frac{1}{r\mathrm{sen}\theta }\frac{\partial A_{\theta }\mathrm{sen}\theta }{\partial \theta }+\frac{1}{r\mathrm{sen}\theta }\frac{\partial A_{\varphi }}{\partial \varphi }$
$\mathrm{\nabla }\times 𝐀$	$\begin{array}{cc}(\frac{\partial A_z}{\partial y}-\frac{\partial A_y}{\partial z})\widehat{𝐱}& +\\ (\frac{\partial A_x}{\partial z}-\frac{\partial A_z}{\partial x})\widehat{𝐲}& +\\ (\frac{\partial A_y}{\partial x}-\frac{\partial A_x}{\partial y})\widehat{𝐳}& \end{array}$	$\begin{array}{cc}(\frac{1}{\rho }\frac{\partial A_z}{\partial \varphi }-\frac{\partial A_{\varphi }}{\partial z})\hat{\mathit{\rho }}& +\\ (\frac{\partial A_{\rho }}{\partial z}-\frac{\partial A_z}{\partial \rho })\hat{\mathit{\varphi }}& +\\ \frac{1}{\rho }(\frac{\partial \rho A_{\varphi }}{\partial \rho }-\frac{\partial A_{\rho }}{\partial \varphi })\widehat{𝒛}& \end{array}$	$\begin{array}{cc}\frac{1}{r\mathrm{sen}\theta }(\frac{\partial A_{\varphi }\mathrm{sen}\theta }{\partial \theta }-\frac{\partial A_{\theta }}{\partial \varphi })\widehat{𝒓}& +\\ (\frac{1}{r\mathrm{sen}\theta }\frac{\partial A_r}{\partial \varphi }-\frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial r{A}_{\varphi }}{\partial r})\hat{\mathit{\theta }}& +\\ \frac{1}{r}(\frac{\partial r{A}_{\theta }}{\partial r}-\frac{\partial A_r}{\partial \theta })\hat{\mathit{\varphi }}& \end{array}$
$\mathrm{\Delta }f={\mathrm{\nabla }}^{2}f$	$\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial x^2}+\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial y^2}+\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial z^2}$	$\frac{1}{\rho }\frac{\partial }{\partial \rho }(\rho \frac{\partial f}{\partial \rho })+\frac{1}{{\rho }^2}\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial {\varphi }^2}+\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial z^2}$	$\frac{1}{r^2}\frac{\partial }{\partial r}(r^2\frac{\partial f}{\partial r})+\frac{1}{r^2\mathrm{sen}\theta }\frac{\partial }{\partial \theta }(\mathrm{sen}\theta \frac{\partial f}{\partial \theta })+\frac{1}{r^2{\mathrm{sen}}^2\theta }\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial {\varphi }^2}$
$\mathrm{\Delta }𝐀={\mathrm{\nabla }}^2𝐀$	$\widehat{𝐱}\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_x+\widehat{𝐲}\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_y+\widehat{𝐳}\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_z$	$\begin{array}{cc}\hat{\mathit{\rho }}(\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_{\rho }-\frac{A_{\rho }}{{\rho }^2}-\frac{2}{{\rho }^2}\frac{\partial A_{\varphi }}{\partial \varphi })& +\\ \hat{\mathit{\varphi }}(\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_{\varphi }-\frac{A_{\varphi }}{{\rho }^2}+\frac{2}{{\rho }^2}\frac{\partial A_{\rho }}{\partial \varphi })& +\\ \widehat{𝒛}\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_z& \end{array}$	$\begin{array}{cc}\widehat{𝒓}& (\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_r-\frac{2A_r}{r^2}-\frac{2A_{\theta }\cos \theta }{r^2\mathrm{sen}\theta }\\ & -\frac{2}{r^2}\frac{\partial A_{\theta }}{\partial \theta }-\frac{2}{r^2\mathrm{sen}\theta }\frac{\partial A_{\varphi }}{\partial \varphi })& +\\ \hat{\mathit{\theta }}& (\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_{\theta }-\frac{A_{\theta }}{r^2{\mathrm{sen}}^2\theta }\\ & +\frac{2}{r^2}\frac{\partial A_r}{\partial \theta }-\frac{2\cos \theta }{r^2{\mathrm{sen}}^2\theta }\frac{\partial A_{\varphi }}{\partial \varphi })& +\\ \hat{\mathit{\varphi }}& (\mathrm{\Delta }{A}_{\varphi }-\frac{A_{\varphi }}{r^2{\mathrm{sen}}^2\theta }\\ & +\frac{2}{r^2{\mathrm{sen}}^2\theta }\frac{\partial A_r}{\partial \varphi }+\frac{2\cos \theta }{r^2{\mathrm{sen}}^2\theta }\frac{\partial A_{\theta }}{\partial \varphi })& \end{array}$
Reglas de cálculo no triviales: $\mathrm{d}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{v}\mathrm{g}\mathrm{r}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{d}f=\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot (\mathrm{\nabla }f)={\mathrm{\nabla }}^{2}f=\mathrm{\Delta }f$ (laplaciano) $\mathrm{r}\mathrm{o}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{g}\mathrm{r}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{d}f=\mathrm{\nabla }\times (\mathrm{\nabla }f)=0$ $\mathrm{d}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{v}\mathrm{r}\mathrm{o}\mathrm{t}𝐀=\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot (\mathrm{\nabla }\times 𝐀)=0$ $\mathrm{r}\mathrm{o}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{r}\mathrm{o}\mathrm{t}𝐀=\mathrm{\nabla }\times (\mathrm{\nabla }\times 𝐀)=\mathrm{\nabla }(\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot 𝐀)-{\mathrm{\nabla }}^2𝐀$ $\mathrm{\Delta }fg=f\mathrm{\Delta }g+2\mathrm{\nabla }f\cdot \mathrm{\nabla }g+g\mathrm{\Delta }f$ Fórmula de Lagrange para el producto vectorial: $𝐀\times (𝐁\times 𝐂)=𝐁(𝐀\cdot 𝐂)-𝐂(𝐀\cdot 𝐁)$

Véase también

• Coordenadas curvilíneas
• Campos vectoriales en coordenadas cilíndricas y esféricas