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Volume element
In
mathematics
, a
volume element
provides a means for
integrating
a
function
with respect to
volume
in various coordinate systems such as
spherical coordinates
and
cylindrical coordinates
. Thus a volume element is an expression of the form
where the
are the coordinates, so that the volume of any set
can be computed by
For example, in spherical coordinates
, and so
.
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