Re: Geometry with distance, vector.




"Jannick Asmus" <jannick.newsREMOVE_ME@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 15.09.2008 13:19, mina_world wrote:

What is <c(t) - a , u > ?

<.,.> denotes the standard scalar product on R^2.

It's really the distance from the point c(t) to the line R ?

Yes. Prove it.

Yes, easy.
||c(t)-a||.||u||.cos(theta) = ||c(t)-a||.cos(theta) with drawing...


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