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To: A Navy Vet

A 3 dimensional velocity vector would be (speed in x direction, speed in y direction, speed in z direction), if the 3 spatial dimensions are (x,y,z).

More mathematically, instead of speed in x direction, you would say change of location in the x direction with respect to time.

So, velocity would be (dx/dt, dy/dt, dz/dt), where d essentially means ‘change in’.


61 posted on 03/22/2021 12:36:36 PM PDT by EvilOverlord (Socialism makes workers into slaves and couch potatoes into kings)
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To: EvilOverlord

To summarize, what they are saying as that they know not only your current position in space, they also know how fast you are moving in each of the 3 dimensions, x,y,z, where x is left to right, y is forward-backward, and z is up-down.


62 posted on 03/22/2021 12:42:59 PM PDT by EvilOverlord (Socialism makes workers into slaves and couch potatoes into kings)
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To: EvilOverlord

Still sounds like trajectory to me. Guess I don’t have the brain power to get it.


65 posted on 03/22/2021 1:01:51 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1776. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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