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| Oct 26, 2021 at 8:43 | comment | added | MBN | This is the definition of a tangent vector at a given point $p$. The point is fixed, that's why it is missing from the notation. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1452877666915438593 | ||
| Oct 25, 2021 at 22:00 | history | became hot network question | |||
| S Oct 25, 2021 at 15:00 | vote | accept | Egg Man | ||
| Oct 25, 2021 at 14:54 | vote | accept | Egg Man | ||
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| Oct 25, 2021 at 14:52 | answer | added | Slereah | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 25, 2021 at 14:44 | comment | added | WillO | In elementary calculus, we teach students that the derivative of a function (at a particular point) is a number. Later on, we teach them that it is a function, taking as input the point at which you differentiated. Same thing here: A tangent vector (at a particular point) takes a function and returns a number. A collection of tangent vectors, one for each point, takes a function and gives you a function that takes the point as input. Such a collection of tangent vectors, if it varies continuously (or differentiably) is called a continuous (or differentiable) vector field. | |
| Oct 25, 2021 at 14:37 | answer | added | user1379857 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 25, 2021 at 14:29 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Oct 25, 2021 at 14:05 | history | edited | Egg Man | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2021 at 14:00 | history | asked | Egg Man | CC BY-SA 4.0 |