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Article contains debate on the physical content of general covariance which I do not understand, which

prompts me to try to start with examples involving the conversion from rectangular to spherical coordinates.

Reports on Progress in Physics, Volume 56, 1993, pp.791-858 (Wikipedia reference to "general covariance",and supplement reading to E. Prince's Mathematical Techniques in Crystallography and Materials Science,Ch. 5 on Tensors; downloaded from http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/decades_re-set.pdf)

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