Category

Ellipsoids

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thumb|Examples of ellipsoids with equation :

{| class=wikitable align=right |+ Spheroids with vertical rotational axes |- align-center |colspan=3|360px |- style="text-align: center" !colspan=2 width=100|oblate||prolate |}

thumb|right|200px |A circle of radius compressed to an ellipse. thumb|right|200px |A sphere of radius compressed to an oblate ellipsoid of revolution.

reference ellipsoid

ellipsoid that approximates the figure of the Earth

ellipsoid joint

condyle that is received into a small joint in the wrist

ellipsoidal coordinates

three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system

Geodetic coordinates

geographic coordinate system

Clairaut's theorem

formula for the surface gravity on a viscous rotating ellipsoid in hydrostatic equilibrium under the action of its gravitational field and centrifugal force

Poinsot's ellipsoid

geometric method for visualizing a rotating rigid body

Hayford ellipsoid

geodetic reference ellipsoid

Bessel ellipsoid

geodetic reference ellipsoid

Jacobi ellipsoid

oblate ellipsoid under equilibrium

ellipsoid method

iterative method for minimizing convex functions

Maclaurin spheroid

oblate spheroid that arises when a self-gravitating fluid body of uniform density rotates with a constant angular velocity

shell bounded by two concentric, similar ellipses or ellipsoids

index ellipsoid

aspect of crystal optics

Lame's stress ellipsoid

graphical representation of stress

solutions of Lamé's equation

geodesics on an ellipsoid

shortest paths on a bounded deformed sphere-like quadric surface

right|400px|thumb|Superellipsoid collection with exponent parameters, created using POV-Ray. Here, e = 2/r, and n = 2/t (equivalently, r = 2/e and t = 2/n).