geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that...
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The Tangent is a progressive rock group formed in 2002, led by keyboardist and singer Andy Tillison. The band was formed in 2002 by Parallel or 90 Degrees...
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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...
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geometry, a tangent line to a circle is a line that touches the circle at exactly one point, never entering the circle's interior. Tangent lines to circles...
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vertical tangent is a tangent line that is vertical. Because a vertical line has infinite slope, a function whose graph has a vertical tangent is not differentiable...
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In geometry, the tangent cone is a generalization of the notion of the tangent space to a manifold to the case of certain spaces with singularities. In...
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A tangent bundle is the collection of all of the tangent spaces for all points on a manifold, structured in a way that it forms a new manifold itself....
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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...
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The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early pianos in design. It normally features five octaves of keys...
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mechanics, the tangent modulus is the slope of the stress–strain curve at any specified stress or strain. Below the proportional limit (the limit of the linear...
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Tangent arcs are a type of halo, an atmospheric optical phenomenon, which appears above and below the observed Sun or Moon, tangent to the 22° halo. To...
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Look up tangent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A tangent, in geometry, is a straight line through a point on a curve that has the same direction at...
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Tangent Comics is a DC Comics imprint created in 1997, developed from ideas by Dan Jurgens. The line, formed from 18 one-shots, focused on creating all-new...
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Trigonometric functions (redirect from Logarithmic tangent)
mathematics are the sine, the cosine, and the tangent functions. Their reciprocals are respectively the cosecant, the secant, and the cotangent functions...
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Tangent is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,231 at the 2020 census. Tangent was the site of a railway station on the...
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Euclidean geometry, the tangent-secant theorem describes the relation of line segments created by a secant and a tangent line with the associated circle...
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geometry, tangent circles (also known as kissing circles) are circles in a common plane that intersect in a single point. There are two types of tangency: internal...
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Nose cone design (redirect from Tangent ogive)
blunted by capping it with a segment of a sphere. The tangency point where the sphere meets the tangent ogive can be found from: x o = L − ( ρ − r n ) 2...
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Linear approximation (redirect from Tangent Line Approximation)
resemble a straight line. Therefore, the expression on the right-hand side is just the equation for the tangent line to the graph of f {\displaystyle f} at...
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the above argument. The above proof and the accompanying diagram show that the tangent BE bisects the angle ∠FEC. In other words, the tangent to the parabola...
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the plane, the diameter is defined to be the largest distance that can be formed between two opposite parallel lines tangent to its boundary, and the...
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Hyperbolic functions (redirect from Hyperbolic tangent)
hyperbolic cosine "cosh" (/ˈkɒʃ, ˈkoʊʃ/), from which are derived: hyperbolic tangent "tanh" (/ˈtæŋ, ˈtæntʃ, ˈθæn/), hyperbolic cotangent "coth" (/ˈkɒθ, ˈkoʊθ/)...
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the law of tangents or tangent rule is a statement about the relationship between the tangents of two angles of a triangle and the lengths of the opposing...
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Local tangent plane coordinates (LTP) are part of a spatial reference system based on the tangent plane defined by the local vertical direction and the Earth's...
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Pushforward (differential) (redirect from Tangent map)
manifold) on tangent spaces. Suppose that φ : M → N {\displaystyle \varphi \colon M\to N} is a smooth map between smooth manifolds; then the differential...
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Dielectric loss (redirect from Loss Tangent)
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 parts are the resistive...
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states that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on even-dimensional n-spheres. For the ordinary sphere, or 2‑sphere, if f is a continuous...
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Euclidean space as the surface swept out by the tangent lines to the curve. Such a surface is also the envelope of the tangent planes to the curve. Let γ (...
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Minkowski space (section Tangent vectors)
dual; in this context, the map is between the tangent spaces of M and the cotangent spaces of M. At a point in M, the tangent and cotangent spaces are...
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Normal mapping (section Calculating tangent spaces)
applying the model and view matrices[citation needed]. Typically the geometry provides a normal and tangent. The tangent is part of the tangent plane and...
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