766 SPHEROIDAL WAVE FUNCTIONS

Table 21.2 ANGULAR FUNCTIONS-PROLATE AND OBLATE

PROLATE
,c(S, cos e)
m 11 c\8 0" 10" 20" 30" 40" 50" 60" 70" 80" 90"
0 0 1 0.8481 0.8525 0.8651 0.8847 0.9091 0.9354 0.9606 0.9815 0.9952 1.000
2 0.5315 0.5431 0.5772 0.6320 0.7032 0.7842 0.8654 0.9355 0.9831 1.000
3 0.2675 0.2815 0.3242 0.3967 0.4980 0.6226 0.7571 0.8805 0.9682 1.000
4 0.1194 0.1312 0.1689 0.2379 0.3442 0.4885 0.6589 0.8271 0.9530 1.000
5 0.0502 0.0585 0.0861 0.1419 0.2380 0.3839 0.5742 0.7776 0.9383 1.000
0 1 1 0.9046 0.8936 0.8602 0.8035 0.7225 0.6169 0.4878 0.3381 0.1731 0
2 0.6681 0.6665 0.6598 0.6429 0.6081 0.5472 0.4540 0.3270 0.1717 0
3 0.4034 0.4099 0.4273 0.4489 0.4630 0.4543 0.4068 0.3110 0.1695 0
4 0.2042 0.2138 0.2415 0.2833 0.3294 0.3618 0.3566 0.2929 0.1669 0
5 0.0916 0.1001 0.1262 0.1703 0.2279 0.2840 0.3104 0.2752 0.1643 0
0 2 1 1.022 0.9795 0.8553 0.6621 0.4198 0.1556 -0.0988 -0.3105 -0.4509 -0.5000
2 1.064 1.030 0.9271 0.7579 0.5296 0.2602 -0.0192 -0.2668 -0.4385 -0.5000
3 1.041 1.023 0.9640 0.8497 0.6660 0.4104 +0.1061 -0.1938 -0.4171 -0.5000
4 0.8730 0.8768 0.8787 0.8513 0.7549 0.5553 0.2512 -0.0998 -0.3879 -0.5000
5 0.6018 0.6233 0.6792 0.7407 0.7537 0.6494 0.3844 +0.0008 -0.3542 -0.5000
0 3 1 0.9892 0.9042 0.6692 0.3400 -0.0045 -0.2816 -0.4259 -0.4085 -0.2467 0
2 0.9590 0.8864 0.6816 0.3840 +0.0560 -0.2261 -0.3907 -0.3949 -0.2447 0
3 0.9090 0.8546 0.6957 0.4485 0.1501 -0.1364 -0.3319 -0.3714 -0.2412 0
4 0.8197 0.7877 0.6868 0.5087 0.2591 -0.0215 -0.2514 -0.3376 -0.2361 0
5 0.6650 0.6560 0.6183 0.5245 0.3482 +0.0971 -0.1575 -0.2952 -0.2293 0
1 1 1 0 0.1578 0.3134 0.4643 0.6067 0.7355 0.8450 0.9290 0.9819 1.000
2 0 0.1194 0.2437 0.3757 0.5149 0.6562 0.7892 0.9000 0.9740 1.000
3 0 0.0776 0.1654 0.2724 0.4030 0.5546 0.7144 0.8597 0.9627 1.000
4 0 0.0449 0.1018 0.1832 0.2994 0.4537 0.6353 0.8150 0.9497 1.000
5 0 0.0239 0.0588 0.1179 0.2162 0.3650 0.5602 0.7698 0.9361 1.000
1 2 1 0 0.4788 0.9054 1.232 1.417 1.435 1.276 0.9562 0.5119 0
2 0 0.3896 0.7509 1.052 1.253 1.316 1.212 0.9335 0.5088 0
3 0 0.2780 0.5538 0.8148 1.030 1.149 1.118 0.8992 0.5039 0
4 0 0.1762 0.3683 0.5813 0.7968 0.9643 1.008 0.8575 0.4979 0
5 0 0.1011 0.2254 0.3896 0.5906 0.7879 0.8957 0.8127 0.4911 0
1 3 1 0 0.9928 1.745 2.075 1.903 1.280 0.3775 -0.552 1 -1.244 -1.500
2 0 0.9559 1.710 2.092 1.998 1.432 0.5298 -0.4541 -1.214 -1.500
3 0 0.8745 1.611 2.063 21097 1.640 0.7606 -0.2972 -1.174 -1.500
4 0 0.7393 1.418 1.934 2.128 1.841 1.032 -0.0951 -1.097 -1.500
5 0 0.5662 1.146 1.691 2.047 1.975 1.299 +O. 1319 -1.017 -1.500
2 2 1 0 0.0844 0.3295 0.7111 1.189 1.710 2.211 2.627 2.903 3.000
2 0 0.0690 0.2744 0.6092 1.054 1.572 2.101 2.566 2.886 3.000
3 0 0.0500 0.2051 0.4773 0.8738 1.380 1.944 2.475 2.859 3.000
4 0 0.0328 0.1405 0.3487 0.6876 1.171 1.764 2.367 2.827 3.000
5 0 0.0198 0.0898 0.2414 0.5212 0.9701 1.580 2.251 2.791 3.000
2 3 1 0 0.4222 1.570 3.116 4.596 5.530 5.548 4.501 2.522 0
2 0 0.3597 1.358 2.755 4.175 5.170 5.327 4.417 2.510 0
3 0 0.2765 1.070 2.255 3.576 4.641 4.994 4.286 2.491 0
4 0 0.1934 0.7758 1.723 2.909 4.025 4.588 4.122 2.466 0
5 0 0.1244 0.5226 1.243 2.269 3.395 4.150 3.936 2.437 0
n o m C. Flammer, Spheroidal wave functions. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif., 1957 (with
permission).
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ANGULAR FUN(XIONS-PROLATE AND OBLATE Table 21.2
OBLATE
( ,S -k,1 )
'nl n C\l 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
0 0 1 1.000 1.002 1.007 1.016 1.028 1.044 1.064 1.088 1.115 1.147 1.183
2 1.000 1.008 1.032 1.073 1.132 1.210 1.310 1.434 1.585 1.767 1.986
3 1.000 1.022 1.089 1.205 1.377 1.617 1.940 2.366 2.923 3.648 4.589
4 1.000 1.047 1.191 1.449 1.854 2.452 3.319 4.557 6.323 8.837 12.42
5 1.000 1.083 1.341 1.835 2.648 3.952 6.000 9.211 14.23 22.11 34.48
0 1 1 0 0.1001 0.2009 0.3027 0.4065 0.5128 0.6222 0.7353 0.8530 0.9160 1.105
2 0 0.1004 0.2034 0.3114 0.4274 0.5542 0.6952 0.8539 1.035 1.243 1.484
3 0 0.1011 0.2079 0.3273 0.4664 0.6338 0.8398 1.098 1.425 1.842 2.378
4 0 0.1016 0.2150 0.3526 0.5298 0.7681 1.096 1.552 2.195 3.105 4.396
5 0 0.1032 0.2252 0.3884 0.6252 0.9804 1.525 2.368 3.684 5.741 8.970
0 2 1 -0.5000 -0.4863 -0.4450 -0.3757 -0.2779 -0.1507 +0.0070 0.1965 0.4197 0.6784 0.9749
2 -0.5000 -0.4897 -0.4585 -0.4052 -0.3277 -0.2231 -0.0872 +0.0849 0.2999 0.5660 0.8930
3 -0.5000 -0.4943 -0.4766 -0.4448 -0.3952 -0.3223 -0.2183 -0.0721 +0.1311 0.3845 0.7958
4 -0.5000 -0.4994 -0.4966 -0.4891 -0.4716 -0.4356 -0.3681 -0.2485 -0.0458 0.2868 0.8201
5 -0.5000 -0.5061 -0.5234 -0.5495 -0.5780 -0.5977 -0.5869 -0.5 067 -0.2880 0.1892 1.132
-0.1477 -0.2810 -0.3855 -0.4466 -0.4491 -0.3768 -0.2130
.____ ~ +0.0600 0.4613 1.011
-0.1480 -0.2839 -0.3947 -0.4668 -0.4839
._ -0.4275 -0.2757 -0.0015 0.4274 1.051
-0.1486 -0.2885 -0.4097 -0.4998 -0.5421 -0.5140 -0.3841 -0.1091 0.3711 1.138
-0.1495 -0.2949 -0.4306 -0.5415 -0.6270 -0.6432 -0.5540 -0.2765 0.2912 1.327
-0.1504 -0.3033 -0.4589 -0.6123 -0.7489 -0.8356 -0.8080 -0.5447 0.1715 1.723
1 1 1 1.000 0.9961 0.9838 0.9628 0.9316 0.8884 0.8299 0.7506 0.6402 0.4731 0
2 1.000 0.9994 0.9973 0.9923 0.9827 0.9652 0.9340 0.8802 0.7864 0.6118 0
3 1.000 1.006 1.025 1.055 1.093 1.135 1.172 1.188 1.149 0.9724 0
4 1.000 1.020 1.079 1.178 1.319 1.498 1.708 1.920 2.067 1.950 0
5 1.000 1.041 1.174 1.406 1.776 2.242 2.878 3.642 4.400 4.651 0
1 2 1 0 0.2987 0.5897 0.8643 1.113 1.322 1.478 1.554 1.508 1.247 0
2 0 0.2985
.__ ~~ 0.5950 0.8815 1.153 1.398 1.600 1.730 1.734 1.487 0
3 0 0.3005 0.6043 0.9140 1.228 1.541 1.837 2.082 2.200
___. ~ 2.000
- - . ~ 0
~

4 0 0.3022 0.6213 0.9640 1.349 1.780 2.250 2.723 3.092 3.033 0

5 0 0.2990 0.6400 1.040 1.537 2.165 2.947 3.868 4.786 5.138 0
-1.421 -1.189 -0.8136 -0.3165 0.2710 0.9015 1.501 1.946 1.988 0
-1.431 -1.228 -0.8941 -0.4427 +0.1060 0.7174 1.329 1.826 1.951 0
-1.447 -1.289 -1.024 -0.6502 -0.1738 +0.3916 1.006 1.572 1.834 0
-1.467 -1.364 -1.184 -0.9148 -0.5415 -0.0538 0.5403 1.177 1.619 0
-1.486 -1.442 -1.353 -1.198 -0.9435 -0.5506 0.0161 0.7471 1.439 0
2 2 1 3.000 2.972 2.889 2.748 2.549 2.291 1.970 1.585 1.131 0.6041 0
2 3.000 2.979 2.915 2.805 2.644 2.425 2.138 1.770 1.305 0.7234 0
3 3.000 2.992 2.965 2.915 2.830 2.693 2.481 2.161 1.687 0.9944 0
4 3.000 3.013 3.052 3.111 3.170 3.200 3.157 2.966 2.512 1.615 0
5 3.000 3.052 3.211 3.469 3.813 4.202 4.564 4.746 4.460 3.188 0
2 3 . 1 0 1.486 2.886 4.115 5.086 5.704 5.877 5.503 4.477 2.683 0
2 0 1.488 2.906 4.180 5.226 5.954 6.251 5.982 4.990 3.077 0
3 0 1.494 2.943 4.295 5.482 6.413 6.951 6.904 6.008 3.879 0
4 0 1.498 2.996 4.475 5.891 7.166 8.132 8.515 7.857 5.408 0
5 0 1.509 3.073 4.738 6.515 8.347 10.07 11.28 11.21 8.354 0