Definition:Spherical Harmonic

This page is about Spherical Harmonic. For other uses, see harmonic.

Definition

A spherical harmonic is a solution $\phi$ to Laplace's equation in $3$ dimensions when expressed in spherical coordinates.

Also see

• Form of Spherical Harmonic

• Results about spherical harmonics can be found here.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): harmonic
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): harmonic: 2.