Planetary coordinate systemA planetary coordinate system (also referred to as planetographic, planetodetic, or planetocentric) is a generalization of the geographic, geodetic, and the geocentric coordinate systems for planets other than Earth. Similar coordinate systems are defined for other solid celestial bodies, such as in the selenographic coordinates for the Moon. The coordinate systems for almost all of the solid bodies in the Solar System were established by Merton E.
RéluctanceLa réluctance, ou résistance magnétique, est une grandeur physique qui caractérise l'aptitude d'un circuit magnétique à s'opposer à sa pénétration par un champ magnétique. Le nom de cette grandeur a été créé par analogie avec celui de la résistance (électrique). L'inverse de la réluctance est appelé perméance magnétique. Cette analogie consiste à faire un parallèle entre les circuits électriques et les circuits magnétiques.
Système de coordonnées célestesvignette En astronomie, un système de coordonnées céleste est un système de coordonnées permettant de déterminer une position dans le ciel, généralement exprimée en notation décimale ou pseudo-sexagésimale (l'unité de base de l'ascension droite étant cependant l'heure sidérale, équivalente à 15°). Il existe plusieurs systèmes, utilisant une grille de coordonnées projetée sur la sphère céleste, de manière analogue aux systèmes de coordonnées géographiques utilisés à la surface de la Terre.
Space physicsSpace physics, also known as solar-terrestrial physics or space-plasma physics, is the study of plasmas as they occur naturally in the Earth's upper atmosphere (aeronomy) and within the Solar System. As such, it encompasses a far-ranging number of topics, such as heliophysics which includes the solar physics of the Sun, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, auroras, cosmic rays, and synchrotron radiation.
Born coordinatesIn relativistic physics, the Born coordinate chart is a coordinate chart for (part of) Minkowski spacetime, the flat spacetime of special relativity. It is often used to analyze the physical experience of observers who ride on a ring or disk rigidly rotating at relativistic speeds, so called Langevin observers. This chart is often attributed to Max Born, due to his 1909 work on the relativistic physics of a rotating body. For overview of the application of accelerations in flat spacetime, see Acceleration (special relativity) and proper reference frame (flat spacetime).
Frame fields in general relativityA frame field in general relativity (also called a tetrad or vierbein) is a set of four pointwise-orthonormal vector fields, one timelike and three spacelike, defined on a Lorentzian manifold that is physically interpreted as a model of spacetime. The timelike unit vector field is often denoted by and the three spacelike unit vector fields by . All tensorial quantities defined on the manifold can be expressed using the frame field and its dual coframe field.
