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Muthumanimaran
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When I study about the transformation of coordinates, especially while defining gradient, curl, divergence and other vector integral theorem in different co-ordinate system, a concept called metric is defined and it is said to used for transform these operators in different co-ordinates, it is given as from a rectangular co-ordinate to any system ,it is given as the differential element dxi=hi qi (dqi is the differential element in other co-ordinate system) and hi is scaling factor, but my question is what is this scaling factor, the book I referred just defined this transformation equation and did not derived it, please explain me how this equation came from and explain with diagrams if possible.