Center of mass separate bodies, such as the planets of the Solar System, the center of mass may not correspond to the position of any individual member of the system. The center of mass is a useful reference point for calculations in mechanics that involve masses distributed in space, such as the linear and angular momentum of planetary bodies and rigid body dynamics. In orbital mechanics, the equations of motion of planets are formulated as point masses located at the centers of mass. The center of mass frame is an inertial frame in which the center of mass of a system is at
Mode of a linear field usually the energy of the solution "assuming that there is no other field in S". From the norm are defined the orthogonality and the scalar product of solutions. The orthogonality of solutions extends to the corresponding modes. Mode of a linear field In physics, a vector field is linear if it is a solution of a set of linear equations "E". For instance, in physics, the electromagnetic field in vacuum, defined in the usual (3 + 1)-dimensional space "S", obeys Maxwell's equations. A linear combination of electromagnetic fields, with constant, real coefficients, is a new field which obeys Maxwell's equations.