Thread: Is this mathematically correct?

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    Is this mathematically correct?

    Check out image.
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    If variabkes a and b are 1, then yes

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    Basically I want to know how I would solve this.........(some 3d vector magnitude stuff).........
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    Is this code the same as.........

    |A|=sqrt(Ax^2+Ay^2+Az^2) ?


    /EDIT/
    Could I have written it this way?
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    I don't know what you were trying to do with the first slide.. but yeah, the magnitude of a vector is the squareroot of the sum of the squares of the components of the vector.
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    In the first one, I was just trying to make a point........So essentially just to make sure in the second image that I put is the same as this |A|=sqrt(Ax^2+Ay^2+Az^2)?


    /EDIT/ I am just trying to see how to work with subscripts and their meanings.
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    Yeah but you know what? If it was higher math we could argue about it.

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    Ask me if it's math :)

    Well, Ax (A sub x) is in x direction..

    in your program, as long as Ax (AX or Ax) represents
    a magnitude in x direction, you can even name it
    as Akillax ... it's just naming.

    also, whenever you say Ax ^2 , it generally means (A sub x)^2
    [A sub x whole square]
    Squaring of x doesn't make sense as x (in this case) refers to a quantity along x axis.

    Mod A i.e.
    |A| = sqrt [(Qty along X)^2 + (Qty along y)^2 + (Qty along z)^2]

    So you have to square the magnitude (i.e. A) along x, y and z.

    in other words, You shouldn't square x, y and z but the different values of A along x, y and z axes.

    example:

    A = 7x+ 3y + 4z

    |A|= squarerootof (7^2 + 3^2 + 4^2)

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