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Homework Statement
For the spherical harmonics Umn; Vmn, compute the ones of orders
0,1, 2.
Umn=cos(nθ)sinn([itex]\varphi[/itex])Pmn(cos([itex]\varphi[/itex]))
Vmn=sin(nθ)sinn([itex]\varphi[/itex])Pmn(cos([itex]\varphi[/itex]))
(b) How many non-zero spherical harmonics are there of order k?
Homework Equations
Equations of Umn; Vmn given
The Attempt at a Solution
What I'm confused about is that these aren't the usual spherical harmonics that I see, plus the notation is different. Is it the different notation? And shouldn't spherical harmonics have 2k+1 for part b?