- In geometry, the
tangent line (or
simply tangent) to a
plane curve at a
given point is, intuitively, the
straight line that "just touches" the
curve at...
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Local tangent plane coordinates (LTP), also
known as
local ellipsoidal system,
local geodetic coordinate system, or
local vertical,
local horizontal coordinates...
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intersects the
plane tangent to the
North Pole at a
right angle. (See diagram). Furthermore, the
equatorial plane is
parallel to the
tangent plane at the North...
- b\right)\left(y-b\right).} The right-hand side is the
equation of the
plane tangent to the
graph of z = f ( x , y ) {\displaystyle z=f(x,y)} at ( a , b...
- object. For example, the
normal line to a
plane curve at a
given point is the line
perpendicular to the
tangent line to the
curve at the point. A normal...
- mathematics, the
tangent space of a
manifold is a
generalization of
tangent lines to
curves in two-dimensional
space and
tangent planes to
surfaces in three-dimensional...
- \mathbf {r} _{v}} are
linearly independent. The
tangent plane at a
regular point is the
affine plane in R3
spanned by
these vectors and p****ing through...
- its
tangent vector T
contained in the
tangent plane of the surface. The
normal curvature, kn, is the
curvature of the
curve projected onto the
plane containing...
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other words, any
affine transformation maps the
tangent plane to the
surface at a
point to the
tangent plane to the
image of the
surface at the
image of the...
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provides a way to
identify the
tangent planes at
different points along the curve: in particular, a
tangent vector in the
tangent space at one
point on the...
