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Area of mathematics
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Differential geometry
Normal vector
Unit normal
2026-09-29
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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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