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  2. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Finally we calculate E 3. Every point in the plane has at least one tangent line to γ passing through it, and so region filled by the tangent lines is the whole plane. The boundary E 3 is therefore the empty set. Indeed, consider a point in the plane, say (x 0,y 0). This point lies on a tangent line if and only if there exists a t such that

  3. Second fundamental form - Wikipedia

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    First suppose that the surface is the graph of a twice continuously differentiable function, z = f(x,y), and that the plane z = 0 is tangent to the surface at the origin. Then f and its partial derivatives with respect to x and y vanish at (0,0). Therefore, the Taylor expansion of f at (0,0) starts with quadratic terms:

  4. 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 x 2 + y 2 = 1 {\displaystyle x^{2}+y^{2}=1} .

  5. 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}.}

  6. 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.

  7. Dual number - Wikipedia

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    so the exponential map applied to the ε-axis covers only half the "circle". Let z = a + bε. If a ≠ 0 and m = ⁠ b / a ⁠, then z = a(1 + mε) is the polar decomposition of the dual number z, and the slope m is its angular part. The concept of a rotation in the dual number plane is equivalent to a vertical shear mapping since (1 + pε)(1 ...

  8. Zariski tangent space - Wikipedia

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    L(X,Y) = 0. in which all terms X a Y b have been discarded if a + b > 1. We have two cases: L may be 0, or it may be the equation of a line. In the first case the (Zariski) tangent space to C at (0,0) is the whole plane, considered as a two-dimensional affine space. In the second case, the tangent space is that line, considered as affine space.

  9. Tangent vector - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a tangent vector is a vector that is tangent to a curve or surface at a given point. Tangent vectors are described in the differential geometry of curves in the context of curves in R n. More generally, tangent vectors are elements of a tangent space of a differentiable manifold. Tangent vectors can also be described in terms of ...