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tangent and plane

Hence, thought of as a line in a particular plane **yp, any tangent to Q has a unique image and moreover this image is the same for all planes through L.

Clearly, any line, l, of any bundle having one of these points of tangency, T, as vertex will be transformed into the entire pencil having the image of the second intersection of L and Q as vertex and lying in the plane determined by the image point and the generator of Af which is tangent to **zg at T.

If is an outward pointing in-plane normal, whereas is the unit vector perpendicular to the plane ( see caption at right ), then the orientation of C is chosen so that a tangent vector to C is positively oriented if and only if forms a positively oriented basis for R 3 ( right-hand rule ).

For a convex shape in the plane, the diameter is defined to be the largest distance that can be formed between two opposite parallel lines tangent to its boundary, and the width is defined to be the smallest such distance.

For example, if the given manifold is a 2-sphere, one can picture the tangent space at a point as the plane which touches the sphere at that point and is perpendicular to the sphere's radius through the point.

In geometry, the tangent line ( or simply the tangent ) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that " just touches " the curve at that point — that is, coincides with the curve at that point and, near that point, is closer to the curve that any other line passing through that point.

The tangent would, of course, be correct if the principal planes were really plane.

There exists a circle in the osculating plane tangent to γ ( s ) whose Taylor series to second order at the point of contact agrees with that of γ ( s ).

Any non-singular curve on a smooth surface will have its tangent vector T lying in the tangent plane of the surface orthogonal

The normal curvature, k n , is the curvature of the curve projected onto the plane containing the curve's tangent T and the surface normal u ; the geodesic curvature, k g , is the curvature of the curve projected onto the

surface's tangent plane ; and the geodesic torsion ( or relative torsion ), τ r , measures the rate of change of the surface normal around the curve's tangent.

All curves with the same tangent vector will have the same normal curvature, which is the same as the curvature of the curve obtained by intersecting the surface with the plane containing T and u.

This is a quadratic form in the tangent plane to the surface at a point whose value at a particular tangent vector X to the surface is the normal component of the acceleration of a curve along the surface tangent to X ; that is, it is the normal curvature to a curve tangent to X ( see above ).

A related notion of curvature is the shape operator, which is a linear operator from the tangent plane to itself.

The principal curvatures are the eigenvalues of the shape operator, and in fact the shape operator and second fundamental form have the same matrix representation with respect to a pair of orthonormal vectors of the tangent plane.

For two-and three-dimensional collisions the velocities in these formulas are the components perpendicular to the tangent line / plane at the point of contact.

Indeed, the equation means that the acceleration of the curve has no components in the direction of the surface ( and therefore it is perpendicular to the tangent plane of the surface at each point of the curve ).

* Curves or functions in the plane are orthogonal at an intersection if their tangent lines are perpendicular at that point.

Some authors define stereographic projection from the north pole ( 0, 0, 1 ) onto the plane z = − 1, which is tangent to the unit sphere at the south pole ( 0, 0, − 1 ).

tangent and is

Thus Af is also continuous at Af, and in a neighborhood of Af which does not contain a tangent point.

In some neighborhood of an isolated tangent point in the f-plane, say Af, the function Af is either double-valued or has no values defined, except at the tangent point itself, where it is single-valued.

There are three possibilities: ( A ) Af remains tangent to C as it is translated ; ;

In the neighborhood of an end point of an interval of tangent points in the f-plane the function is two-valued or no-valued on one side, and is a single-valued function consisting entirely of tangent points on the other side.

Therefore, for any value of T the number of values of f{t} is equal to the ( finite ) number of tangent points corresponding to the argument T plus an odd number.

The most obvious of these is the quadratic complex of tangents to Q, each line of which is transformed into the entire pencil of lines tangent to Q at the image of the point of tangency of the given line.

It is interesting that a 1: 1 correspondence can be established between the lines of two such pencils, so that in a sense a unique image can actually be assigned to each tangent.

Now the only way in which all curves of the image family of Af can pass through a fixed point is to have a generator of Af which is not a secant but a tangent of **zg, for then any point on such a generator will be transformed into the point of tangency.

His application of reference lines, a diameter and a tangent is essentially no different than our modern use of a coordinate frame, where the distances measured along the diameter from the point of tangency are the abscissas, and the segments parallel to the tangent and intercepted between the axis and the curve are the ordinates.

In some contexts, such as algebraic geometry, an asymptote is defined as a line which is tangent to a curve at infinity.

So the line is a horizontal tangent for the arctangent when x tends to −∞, and is a horizontal tangent for the arctangent when x tends to +∞.

tangent and rolled

A tangent plane can be " rolled " along S, and as it does so the point of contact traces out a curve on S. Conversely, given a curve on S, the tangent plane can be rolled along that curve.

In particular, the tangent plane to a point of S can be rolled on S: this should be easy to imagine when S is a surface like the 2-sphere, which is the smooth boundary of a convex region.

This notion of parallel transport of tangent vectors, by affine transformations, along a curve has a characteristic feature: the point of contact of the tangent plane with the surface always moves with the curve under parallel translation ( i. e., as the tangent plane is rolled along the surface, the point of contact moves ).

tangent and on

We turn now to the set of tangent points on the graph.

The fact that there can not be any limit points of the set except in closed intervals follows from the argument used in Lemma 1, namely, that near any tangent point in the C-plane the curves C and Af are analytic, and therefore the difference between them must be a monotone function in some neighborhood on either side of the tangent point.

Now Af and Af must both be tangent points on the T component in the f-plane ; ;

Since two curves of symbol Af on Q intersect in Af points, it follows that there are Af lines of Af which are tangent to Aj.

In either case, df x is a linear map on T x M and hence it is a tangent covector at x.

Since the map d restricts to 0 on I x 2 ( the reader should verify this ), d descends to a map from I x / I x 2 to the dual of the tangent space, ( T x M )*.

They can be thought of as alternating, multilinear maps on k tangent vectors.

When the key is pressed, the tangent strikes the strings above, causing them to sound in a similar fashion to the hammering technique on a guitar.

The radius of curvature of the path is ρ as found from the rate of rotation of the tangent to the curve with respect to arc length, and is the radius of the osculating circle at position s. The unit circle on the left shows the rotation of the unit vectors with s.

The slope of the tangent line is very close to the slope of the line through ( a, f ( a )) and a nearby point on the graph, for example.

Differential topology also deals with questions like these, which specifically pertain to the properties of differentiable mappings on R n ( for example the tangent bundle, jet bundles, the Whitney extension theorem, and so forth ).

This is a concept of distance expressed by means of a smooth positive definite symmetric bilinear form defined on the tangent space at each point.

This is a differential manifold with a Finsler metric, i. e. a Banach norm defined on each tangent space.

However, if one additionally prescribes a smoothly varying inner product on the manifold's tangent spaces, then the result is what is called a Riemannian manifold.

* The projection of to the horizontal subspace of the tangent space at point p ∈ P must be isomorphic to the metric g on M at π ( p ).

This identifies the tangent space T e at the identity with the space of left invariant vector fields, and therefore makes the tangent space at the identity into a Lie algebra, called the Lie algebra of G, usually denoted by a Fraktur Thus the Lie bracket on is given explicitly by = e .

This leads to the same Lie algebra, because the inverse map on G can be used to identify left invariant vector fields with right invariant vector fields, and acts as − 1 on the tangent space T e .

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