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Normal and tangential components
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Codex
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2026-09-29
Relative to
a
unit normal
n
,
a
vector
v
decomposes orthogonally
as
v
=
(
v
⋅
n
)
n
+
[
v
−
(
v
⋅
n
)
n
]
.
(1)
The
first
term is its normal component and the
second
its tangential component.
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