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  2. Parametric surface - Wikipedia

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    The tangent plane at a regular point is the affine plane in R 3 spanned by these vectors and passing through the point r(u, v) on the surface determined by the parameters. Any tangent vector can be uniquely decomposed into a linear combination of r u {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} _{u}} and r v . {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} _{v}.}

  3. atan2 - Wikipedia

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    The two figures below show 3D views of respectively atan2(y, x) and arctan(⁠ y / x ⁠) over a region of the plane. Note that for atan2(y, x), rays in the X/Y-plane emanating from the origin have constant values, but for arctan(⁠ y / x ⁠) lines in the X/Y-plane passing through the origin have constant

  4. Surface (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The tangent plane at a regular point p is the unique plane passing through p and having a direction parallel to the two row vectors of the Jacobian matrix. The tangent plane is an affine concept, because its definition is independent of the choice of a metric.

  5. Tangent space - Wikipedia

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    In 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 space in higher dimensions. In the context of physics the tangent space to a manifold at a point can be viewed as the space of possible velocities for a particle moving on ...

  6. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    It follows that at least one tangent line to γ must pass through any given point in the plane. If y > x 3 and y > 0 then each point (x,y) has exactly one tangent line to γ passing through it. The same is true if y < x 3 y < 0. If y < x 3 and y > 0 then each point (x,y) has exactly three distinct

  7. Monge cone - Wikipedia

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    Otherwise, the Monge cone is a proper cone since a nontrivial and non-coaxial one-parameter family of planes through a fixed point envelopes a cone. Explicitly, the original partial differential equation gives rise to a scalar-valued function on the cotangent bundle of R 3 , defined at a point ( x , y , z ) by

  8. Implicit curve - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, an implicit curve is a plane curve defined by an implicit equation relating two coordinate variables, commonly x and y. For example, the unit circle is defined by the implicit equation + =. In general, every implicit curve is defined by an equation of the form (,) =

  9. Riemannian manifold - Wikipedia

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    A tangent plane of the sphere with two vectors in it. A Riemannian metric allows one to take the inner product of these vectors. Let be a smooth manifold.For each point , there is an associated vector space called the tangent space of at .