Mapping Spherical Coordinates

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Spherical coordinates are in the form (ρ, Θ, φ) 


How are these coordinates mapped when changed to (ρ, Θ, π-φ)?

Circle/Fill In: There is a (reflection/rotation) about the __________ plane

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$\phi$ traces the angle from the north pole to the south. What does $\pi-\phi$ then do? It reverses direction, starting from $\pi$ and ending up at $0$. Thus, it starts at the south pole and ends up at the north.

Can you see now it is whatever your first coordinate was reflected across the $xy$ plane?