physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector or simply a vector (sometimes called a geometric vector or spatial vector) is a geometric object that has...
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associated vector space is a Euclidean vector space. Euclidean spaces are sometimes called Euclidean affine spaces to distinguish them from Euclidean vector spaces...
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operations on the above sorts of vectors. A vector space formed by geometric vectors is called a Euclidean vector space, and a vector space formed by tuples is...
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applied as the measure of units between a number and zero. In vector spaces, the Euclidean norm is a measure of magnitude used to define a distance between...
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Norm (mathematics) (redirect from Vector norm)
particular, the Euclidean distance in a Euclidean space is defined by a norm on the associated Euclidean vector space, called the Euclidean norm, the 2-norm...
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Dot product (redirect from Vector dot product)
(usually coordinate vectors), and returns a single number. In Euclidean geometry, the dot product of the Cartesian coordinates of two vectors is widely used...
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Look up vector or vectorial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vector most often refers to: Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction...
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Three-dimensional space (redirect from Euclidean 3-space)
origin' of the vector space. Euclidean spaces are sometimes called Euclidean affine spaces for distinguishing them from Euclidean vector spaces. This is...
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combinatorics. In geometry, two Euclidean vectors are orthogonal if they are perpendicular, i.e. they form a right angle. Two vectors u and v in an inner product...
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measurement and a vector numerical value (unitless), often a Euclidean vector with magnitude and direction. For example, a position vector in physical space...
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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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+(p_{n}-q_{n})^{2}}}.} The Euclidean distance may also be expressed more compactly in terms of the Euclidean norm of the Euclidean vector difference: d ( p ,...
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inner product of a vector and itself. The Euclidean norm of a Euclidean vector space is a special case that allows defining Euclidean distance by the formula...
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so that ei + ej is a null vector. In a pseudo-Euclidean space with k < n, unlike in a Euclidean space, there exist vectors with negative scalar square...
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linear algebra and calculus to be generalized from (finite-dimensional) Euclidean vector spaces to spaces that may be infinite-dimensional. Hilbert spaces arise...
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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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Inner product space (redirect from Orthogonal vector)
angles, and orthogonality (zero inner product) of vectors. Inner product spaces generalize Euclidean vector spaces, in which the inner product is the dot...
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In mathematics, a Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two, denoted E 2 {\displaystyle {\textbf {E}}^{2}} or E 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {E}...
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relaxed. Every tangent space of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is a pseudo-Euclidean vector space. A special case used in general relativity is a four-dimensional...
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Rotation (mathematics) (redirect from Rotation operator (vector space))
and a unit vector for the axis, or as a Euclidean vector obtained by multiplying the angle with this unit vector, called the rotation vector (although...
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Position (geometry) (redirect from Radius vector)
In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents a point P in space....
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Rigid transformation (redirect from Euclidean transformation)
(also called Euclidean transformation or Euclidean isometry) is a geometric transformation of a Euclidean space that preserves the Euclidean distance between...
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a nonzero null vector. A quadratic space (X, q) which has a null vector is called a pseudo-Euclidean space. The term isotropic vector v when q(v) = 0...
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Affine space (redirect from Point–vector distinction)
definition of Euclidean space implied by Euclid's Elements, for convenience most modern sources define affine spaces in terms of the well developed vector space...
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fields, primarily in three-dimensional Euclidean space, R 3 . {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}.} The term vector calculus is sometimes used as a synonym...
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Cross product (redirect from Vector product)
a binary operation on two vectors in a three-dimensional oriented Euclidean vector space (named here E {\displaystyle E} ), and is denoted by the symbol...
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Scalars can also be, more generally, elements of any field. Vector spaces generalize Euclidean vectors, which allow modeling of physical quantities (such as...
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Lorentz group, the (1/2,1/2) representation. It differs from a Euclidean vector in how its magnitude is determined. The transformations that preserve...
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differently from a symmetric form, for example, the scalar product on Euclidean vector spaces. The standard symplectic space is R 2 n {\displaystyle \mathbb...
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Spinor (redirect from Spin vector)
complex number-based vector space that can be associated with Euclidean space. A spinor transforms linearly when the Euclidean space is subjected to...
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