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THE GEOMETRY OF CENTRAL FORCES

Appendix C Symbols

Symbol Description Location
\(\forall\) “for all” Paragraph
\(\left\langle \vec{u}\vert \vec{v}\right\rangle\) the inner product of the vectors \(\left\vert \vec{u}\right\rangle\) and \(\left\vert \vec{v}\right\rangle\) Definition 21
\(\textrm{ODE}\) ordinary differential equation Definition 29
\(\textrm{PDE}\) partial differential equation Definition 29
\(\LL\) linear differential operator Notation 11
\(P_{\ell}(z)\) Legendre polynomial of degree \(\ell\) Definition 8