hodograph 的定义
Mathematics, Mechanics.
- the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
更多hodograph例句
- For applications of the hodograph to the solution of kinematical problems see Mechanics.
- Thus for a circular orbit with the centre of force at an excentric point, the hodograph is a conic with the pole as focus.
- The annexed fig. 70 exhibits the various cases, with the hodograph in its proper orientation.
- In the motion of a projectile under gravity the hodograph is a vertical line described with constant velocity.
- The pole O of the hodograph is inside on or outside the circle, according as the orbit is an ellipse, parabola or hyperbola.