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Curves of particular interest in physics are those representing paths of moving particles. Such curves may be described by giving the coordinates of the particle as functions of time. In the following we shall consider the path of a particle thrown horizontally, as an illustrating example (see Fig. 3.1).
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Grøn, Ø., Næss, A. (2011). Tangent vectors. In: Einstein's Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0706-5_3
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