Hello to all:

I teach physics at a community college in Arizona. Currently I am working on documents to assist students in visualization of Electrostatic and Magnetic fields. Almost all require either cylindrical or spherical coordinates. My question is: Given a field expressed in cylindrical coordinates, how do you generate a vector plot of the field in that coordinate system?

Please note, that I have already found a method to convert the field from cylindrical to cartesian coordinates, and the VectorPlot function works just fine once I convert it, but I would like some options so that I do not need to convert the field but rather just plot it directly. This would also be helpful in the event that I want to visualize fields in other orthogonal coordinate systems e.g. toroidal coordinates.

Thank you all for your consideration and responses.

Chris Ubing Sierra Vista, Az