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We get some expression in Cylindrical coordinates (r, ϕ, z ) like : expr := r*z^2*sin((1/3)*ϕ) we need to convert it into Cartesian coordinates and than back to Cylindrical coordinates. How to do such thing?

So I found something like this : eval(expr, {r = sqrt(x^2+y^2), z = z,ϕ= arctan(y, x)}) but it seems incorrect, how to correct it and how make eval to convert backwords from Cartesian to Cylindrical?

ϕ == ϕ

So I try:

R := 1;   H := h;   sigma[0] := sig0;  sigma := sigma[0]*z^2*sin((1/3)*`ϕ`);  toCar := eval(sigma, {r = sqrt(x^2+y^2), z = z, `ϕ` = arctan(y, x)});  toCyl := collect(eval(toCar, {x = r*cos(`ϕ`), y = r*sin(`ϕ`), z = z}), `ϕ`) 

It looks close to true but look: enter image description here

why arctan(r*sin(ϕ), r*cos(ϕ)) is not shown as ϕ?

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I don't speak Maple, but it looks like your eval takes you from Cartesian to cylindrical coordinates. The inverse is $x=r \cos \phi , y=r \sin \phi, z=z$. The Wikipedia link you have gives this, though using $\rho$ instead of $r$

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    Seems to me that $\arctan\left(\frac{r\sin\phi}{r\cos\phi}\right)$ should evaluate to $\phi$, but that is Maple, not math2011-05-18