Timeline for y with respect to t
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| Mar 5, 2011 at 2:15 | answer | added | bobobobo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 17, 2011 at 11:08 | comment | added | avpaderno | @Jimi Oke: velocity, in general use, is understood to mean speed (e.g., the tank shot backward at an incredible velocity); it's only in physics that you say the velocities of the emitted particles. Look then at the mathematical concept of vector, and see the meaning of vector outside mathemathics (see the vector of the disease, for example). | |
| Feb 17, 2011 at 1:29 | comment | added | Adam | Or are you saying that usage/mechanics of it is clear but the origin/etymology is not? (hence your employment of "fundamentally") | |
| Feb 17, 2011 at 1:27 | comment | added | Adam | Also, out of curiosity, what is unclear about "with respect to?" You have: "<function name> with respect to <parameter name>" where <function name> is always the thing you're solving for and <parameter name> is always the independent variable. Or, in the function f(x) = (...), f is <function name> and x is <parameter name>. | |
| Feb 17, 2011 at 1:08 | comment | added | Adam | @Jimi Oke: I agree with your disagreement. I think synonym requests would seem out of place on Math.SE... Math-related or not. | |
| Feb 17, 2011 at 0:42 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | I disagree. The asker is looking for a better way to say it in English, but, of course, the statement should remain mathematically correct, i.e. retain its current meaning. | |
| Feb 17, 2011 at 0:20 | comment | added | bobobobo | I hate the expression With respect to. It is fundamentally unclear. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 23:21 | comment | added | avpaderno | I agree that it should be asked on math.SE, as it is asking for a mathematically correct way to say a sentence. A mathematically correct way is different from a grammatically correct way. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 23:15 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
fixed a typo ("phase" versus "phrase"), improved formatting
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| Feb 16, 2011 at 21:35 | comment | added | Adam | I wasn't aware anybody suggested otherwise... Velocity is the rate of change of position with respect to time. There's no reason a rate can't also be a vector. dr/dt (r being a position vector) is a derivative and a derivative is, by definition, a rate. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 19:26 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | Since we are talking about mathematically correct ways, it should be noted that velocity is not quite the same as speed. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 19:18 | answer | added | Jon Purdy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 19:04 | answer | added | Neil Coffey | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 18:58 | answer | added | psmears | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 18:57 | answer | added | avpaderno | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 18:53 | comment | added | Robusto | Maybe you should ask this on Math.SE? | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 18:51 | history | asked | bobobobo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |