In geometry and mechanics, a displacement is a vector whose length is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position of a point P undergoing...
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magnitude and a direction, such as displacements, forces and velocity. Such quantities are represented by geometric vectors in the same way as distances, masses...
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The magnitude of the vector is the distance between the two points, and the direction refers to the direction of displacement from A to B. Many algebraic...
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In mechanics, a displacement field is the assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a region or body that are displaced from one state to another...
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Affine space (redirect from Point–vector distinction)
associated vector space can be constructed from the differences between start and end points, which are called free vectors, displacement vectors, translation...
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Torque (redirect from Torque vector)
point particles, it is given by the cross product of the displacement vector and the force vector. The direction of the torque can be determined by using...
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Position (geometry) (redirect from Radius vector)
the displacement or translation that maps the origin to P: r = O P → . {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} ={\overrightarrow {OP}}.} The term position vector is...
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that r × F = 0 and the angular momentum vector L is constant (conserved). Therefore, the displacement vector r and its velocity v are always in the plane...
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continuum body can be described by a displacement field. A displacement field is a vector field of all displacement vectors for all particles in the body, which...
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the natural sciences, a vector quantity (also known as a vector physical quantity, physical vector, or simply vector) is a vector-valued physical quantity...
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E. Because of the vector identity that says the curl of a gradient is zero, ∇φ does not contribute to ∇×E. Maxwell's displacement current was postulated...
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Electric field (redirect from Electric field vector)
\mathbf {r} _{0}} . r 01 {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} _{01}} is the displacement vector from r 1 {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} _{1}} to r 0 {\displaystyle \mathbf...
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Velocity (redirect from First temporal derivative of displacement)
can be derived from the Cartesian velocity and displacement vectors by decomposing the velocity vector into radial and transverse components. The transverse...
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{\mathbf {r-r_{i}} }{|\mathbf {r-r_{i}} |}}} is the unit vector of the displacement vector that indicates the direction of the field due to the source...
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the displacement vector u(X,t) = uiei in the Lagrangian description, or U(x,t) = UJEJ in the Eulerian description. A displacement field is a vector field...
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Glide reflection (redirect from Glide vector)
reflection is a plane called the glide plane. The displacement vector of the translation is called the glide vector. When some geometrical object or configuration...
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Euclidean space (redirect from Euclidean vector space)
every pair of points (P, Q), there is exactly one displacement vector v such that P + v = Q. This vector v is denoted Q − P or P Q → ) . {\displaystyle {\overrightarrow...
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f {\displaystyle \mathbf {f} } the force vector, and d {\displaystyle \mathbf {d} } the displacement vector. The number of the degrees of freedom of the...
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Hooke's law (section Vector formulation)
function κ from vectors to vectors, such that F = κ(X), and κ(αX1 + βX2) = ακ(X1) + βκ(X2) for any real numbers α, β and any displacement vectors X1, X2. Such...
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In detail, if h is a displacement vector represented by a column matrix, the matrix product J(x) ⋅ h is another displacement vector, that is the best linear...
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Work (physics) (section Vector formulation)
the displacement in the upwards direction. Both force and displacement are vectors. The work done is given by the dot product of the two vectors, where...
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informally thought of as a line segment associated with an infinitesimal displacement vector in a metric space. The length of the line element, which may be thought...
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0), the scalar r = |r| is the norm of the position vector, ds = differential displacement vector along a path C going from rref to r, W r r e f → r {\displaystyle...
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Pseudovector (redirect from Axial vector)
described by a rotation matrix R, so that a displacement vector x is transformed to x′ = Rx, then any "vector" v must be similarly transformed to v′ = Rv...
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Dot product (redirect from Vector dot product)
first vector onto the second vector and the magnitude of the second vector. For example: Mechanical work is the dot product of force and displacement vectors...
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mathematics by the lower-case Greek letter ξ) Displacement field (mechanics), an assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a body that is displaced...
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coordinates#Formulas can be rewritten in terms of barycentric coordinates. The displacement vector of two normalized points P = ( p 1 , p 2 , p 3 ) {\displaystyle P=(p_{1}...
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of as a displacement from an origin point, is a vector: a quantity with both magnitude and direction.: 1 Velocity and acceleration are vector quantities...
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Exterior algebra (redirect from Extended vector algebra)
In mathematics, the exterior algebra or Grassmann algebra of a vector space V {\displaystyle V} is an associative algebra that contains V , {\displaystyle...
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their associated gradient vectors. Next, for each corner, calculate an offset vector. An offset vector is a displacement vector from that corner to the...
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