• geometric measure theory an approximate tangent space is a measure theoretic generalization of the concept of a tangent space for a differentiable manifold...
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    A similar definition applies to space curves and curves in n-dimensional Euclidean space. The point where the tangent line and the curve meet or intersect...
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    reuse is made possible by encoding maps in tangent space. The tangent space is a vector space, which is tangent to the model's surface. The coordinate system...
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  • Curvature (redirect from Flat space)
    the circle that best approximates the curve near this point. The curvature of a straight line is zero. In contrast to the tangent, which is a vector quantity...
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    smooth manifold is a smoothly varying choice of inner product for each tangent space of the manifold. A Riemannian manifold is a smooth manifold together...
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    about the underlying topological space. For example, the tangent bundle consists of the collection of tangent spaces parametrized by the points of a differentiable...
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  • Dielectric loss (redirect from Loss Tangent)
    parameterized in terms of either the loss angle δ or the corresponding loss tangent tan(δ). Both refer to the phasor in the complex plane whose real and imaginary...
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  • intersection just does not occur for a circle. Secants may be used to approximate the tangent line to a curve, at some point P, if it exists. Define a secant...
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  • space. The Grassmannian is used to allow the construction of analogs to differential forms as duals to vector fields in the approximate tangent space...
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    points. A Riemannian manifold is a space equipped with a Riemannian metric tensor, which determines lengths of tangent vectors at every point. This can...
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  • regularity required to admit approximate tangent spaces. Characterization of rectifiability through existence of approximate tangents, densities, projections...
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    vectors from one tangent space to another. Parallel transport of tangent vectors is a way of moving vectors from one tangent space to another along a...
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    {\displaystyle M} is a space that can be approximated near each point x {\displaystyle x} by a vector space called its tangent space: the prototypical example...
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    plane tangent to the graph of z = f ( x , y ) {\displaystyle z=f(x,y)} at ( a , b ) . {\displaystyle (a,b).} In the more general case of Banach spaces, one...
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    geometric object on a smooth manifold which connects nearby tangent spaces, so it permits tangent vector fields to be differentiated as if they were functions...
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    Sphere (redirect from Maschler space)
    spheres are tangent at that point). The angle between two spheres at a real point of intersection is the dihedral angle determined by the tangent planes to...
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    n-space, in which the number n is the manifold's dimension. For connected differentiable manifolds, the dimension is also the dimension of the tangent vector...
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    even approximately. Distances and angles can be defined on a smooth manifold by providing a smoothly varying Euclidean metric on the tangent spaces at the...
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    smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric (an inner product on the tangent space at each point that varies smoothly from point to point). This gives...
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    tangents can always be drawn to a circle from any point outside the circle, and these tangents are equal in length. If a tangent at A and a tangent at...
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    be zero above 650 nm means that the line connecting Cg and Cr must be tangent to the gamut in the region of Kr. This defines the location of point Cr...
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    words, every Lie group G is (to first order) approximately a real vector space, namely the tangent space g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} to G at the...
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    tangent line. Even though the tangent line only touches a single point at the point of tangency, it can be approximated by a line that goes through two...
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    refraction, then the distance to the horizon can easily be calculated. The tangent-secant theorem states that O C 2 = O A × O B . {\displaystyle \mathrm {OC}...
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    The idea is to start with an initial guess at a root, approximate the function by its tangent line near the guess, and then take the root of the linear...
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    two planes or by two intersecting curves, in which case the rays lying tangent to each curve at the point of intersection define the angle. The term angle...
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  • In the study of artificial neural networks (ANNs), the neural tangent kernel (NTK) is a kernel that describes the evolution of deep artificial neural...
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  • Larry (1996). Three Books of Known Space. Ballantine. "There Is a Tide" "Analog, November/December 2022 – Tangent Online". 30 October 2022. "1970 Award...
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    and the accompanying diagram show that the tangent BE bisects the angle ∠FEC. In other words, the tangent to the parabola at any point bisects the angle...
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  • Therefore, all tangent vectors for a point p span a linear space, termed the tangent space at point p. For example, taking a 2-dimensional space, like the...
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