• In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted by a lowercase...
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    Euclidean vectors can be added and scaled to form a vector space. A vector quantity is a vector-valued physical quantity, including units of measurement...
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  • In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed...
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    defined as follows: T is the unit vector tangent to the curve, pointing in the direction of motion. N is the normal unit vector, the derivative of T with...
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    Cross product (redirect from Vector product)
    lengths. The units of the cross-product are the product of the units of each vector. If two vectors are parallel or are anti-parallel (that is, they are linearly...
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    defining different unit directed line segments (as a bound vector instead of a free vector). A direction is often represented as a unit vector, the result of...
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    rotation in a three-dimensional Euclidean space by two quantities: a unit vector e indicating the direction of an axis of rotation, and an angle of rotation...
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  • algebra, two vectors in an inner product space are orthonormal if they are orthogonal unit vectors. A unit vector means that the vector has a length of...
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    The vector projection (also known as the vector component or vector resolution) of a vector a on (or onto) a nonzero vector b is the orthogonal projection...
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  • and negative if they are anti-parallel. A unit vector is a vector of length one. Examples of unit vectors include i, j and k. Note: The use of the word...
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  • {b} } In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted by a lowercase...
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    15°/h (or 2π rad/24 h ≈ 0.26 rad/h) and angular velocity direction (a unit vector) parallel to Earth's rotation axis ( ω ^ = Z ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {\omega...
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  • a unit of measurement and a vector numerical value (unitless), often a Euclidean vector with magnitude and direction. For example, a position vector in...
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  • percentile) of the feature. Unit vector normalization regards each individual data point as a vector, and divide each by its vector norm, to obtain x ′ = x...
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    emphasize their status as unit vectors (standard unit vectors). These vectors are a basis in the sense that any other vector can be expressed uniquely...
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    showing that the vector dot product is zero. The unit magnitude of these vectors is a consequence of Eq. 1. Using the tangent vector, the angle θ of the...
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  • a unit cell is a repeating unit formed by the vectors spanning the points of a lattice. Despite its suggestive name, the unit cell (unlike a unit vector...
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  • a unit of measurement and a vector numerical value (unitless), often a Euclidean vector with magnitude and direction. For example, a position vector in...
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    In vector calculus and physics, a vector field is an assignment of a vector to each point in a space, most commonly Euclidean space R n {\displaystyle...
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    Vector notation In mathematics and physics, vector notation is a commonly used notation for representing vectors, which may be Euclidean vectors, or more...
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    normal vector is a vector perpendicular to a given object at a particular point. A normal vector of length one is called a unit normal vector or normal...
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  • vector (and hence a unit vector) is undefined. If the function f is differentiable at x, then the directional derivative exists along any unit vector...
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    physics, the Poynting vector (or Umov–Poynting vector) represents the directional energy flux (the energy transfer per unit area, per unit time) or power flow...
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  • {u}}_{D}} unit vectors (i.e., the angle between the two reference frames). The projection of the arbitrary vector onto each of the two new unit vectors implies...
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    separate "units", each performing a specific task, integrated onto the same die. These units are: a CPU core, two Vector Processing Units (VPU), a 10-channel...
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    amount of charge per unit time that flows through a unit area of a chosen cross section. The current density vector is defined as a vector whose magnitude...
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  • Flux (redirect from Flux of a vector field)
    in applied mathematics and vector calculus which has many applications in physics. For transport phenomena, flux is a vector quantity, describing the magnitude...
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  • For a finite planar surface of scalar area S and unit normal ^n, the vector area S is defined as the unit normal scaled by the area: S = n ^ S {\displaystyle...
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  • } When the distance between two unit-length vectors is defined to be the length of their vector difference then dist ⁡ ( A , B ) = ( A − B...
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    Quaternion (redirect from Vector quaternion)
    taken to represent vectors in 3D space, then it turns out that the reflection of a vector r in a plane perpendicular to a unit vector w can be written:...
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