The following line creates the curve of the unit tangent vector-valued function. (Invisible by Default). Upon activating the visibility, notice how it is never anything more than the arcs of a circle with radius 1.
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The following line creates a point traveling along the curve of the unit tangent vector-valued function. (Invisible by default). Upon activating the visibility, notice how the point acts like a compass pointing in the direction of the point on the velocity vector-valued function
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The following two lines simulate the unit tangent vector placed on top of the point moving along the curve. This is done by creating a line with certain restrictions on its domain. Notice how the vector always points towards the concavity of the graph.
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The following two lines create the curve and a point on the curve of the principal unit normal vector-valued function. (Invisible by default). Upon activating the visibility, notice how it acts like another compass pointing in a direction perpendicular to that of the unit tangent "compass"
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For the sake of better visibility, the following two lines recreate the principal normal unit vector-valued function with a reduced size so that it is distinguishable from the unit tangent vector-valued function. (Invisible by default). It is recommended to activate the visibility of the following two instead of the previous two lines.
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The following two lines simulate the principal unit normal vector placed on top of the point moving along the curve. This is done by creating a line with certain restrictions on its domain.
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The following lines of code are not graphically representative of anything useful, but are vital to the calculations of the utility, so they should not be deleted. They are invisibly by default, but activating visibility demonstrates the complexity that this process can reach with manual calculations.
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*Despite various attempts, a bug persists where vertical vectors are not shown (because the "slope" is undefined). However, since it is rare to find a graph with an undefined slope for longer than an instance, this bug is not at all noticeable when the slider is turned on.
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Utility created by Andres Holguin
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