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09-14-2005, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GUILLE
What are normal and binormal unit vectors?
It is really hard for me to describe without the use of picture. However, for now, the following site can better explain it in vector notations. I'll keep looking for a site that shows pictures.

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/AllBr...malVectors.asp

here is another with just a picture of the normal vector.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalVector.html

here is a description of a binormal vector, which is just the outer product of the normal vector and the tangent vector.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinormalVector.html
  
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