Real-Valued Spherical Harmonic Vibrations
The spherical harmonics are modes of vibration on the sphere, here shown up to n=3. The index n counts the nodal circles and |m| the nodal circles running through the north and south pole of the sphere.
m=-3 | m=-2 | m=-1 | m=0 | m=1 | m=2 | m=3 | |
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n=0 | |||||||
n=1 | |||||||
n=2 | |||||||
n=3 |
Franz Zotter, 2006.