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  2. Stationary point - Wikipedia

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    A turning point of a differentiable function is a point at which the derivative has an isolated zero and changes sign at the point. [2] A turning point may be either a relative maximum or a relative minimum (also known as local minimum and maximum). A turning point is thus a stationary point, but not all stationary points are turning points. If ...

  3. Critical point (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The x-coordinates of the red circles are stationary points; the blue squares are inflection points. In mathematics, a critical point is the argument of a function where the function derivative is zero (or undefined, as specified below). The value of the function at a critical point is a critical value. [1]

  4. WKB approximation - Wikipedia

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    The wavefunction's coefficients can be calculated for a simple problem shown in the figure. Let the first turning point, where the potential is decreasing over x, occur at = and the second turning point, where potential is increasing over x, occur at =. Given that we expect wavefunctions to be of the following form, we can calculate their ...

  5. Truncus (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In analytic geometry, a truncus is a curve in the Cartesian plane consisting of all points (x,y) satisfying an equation of the form A mathematical graph of the basic truncus formula, marked in blue, with domain and range both restricted to [-5, 5]. = (+) + where a, b, and c are given constants.

  6. Rotation of axes in two dimensions - Wikipedia

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    A point P has coordinates (x, y) with respect to the original system and coordinates (x′, y′) with respect to the new system. [1] In the new coordinate system, the point P will appear to have been rotated in the opposite direction, that is, clockwise through the angle . A rotation of axes in more than two dimensions is defined similarly.

  7. Total curvature - Wikipedia

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    The total curvature of a closed curve is always an integer multiple of 2 π, where N is called the index of the curve or turning number – it is the winding number of the unit tangent vector about the origin, or equivalently the degree of the map to the unit circle assigning to each point of the curve, the unit velocity vector at that point.

  8. Hyperbolic angle - Wikipedia

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    The curve represents xy = 1. A hyperbolic angle has magnitude equal to the area of the corresponding hyperbolic sector, which is in standard position if a = 1. In geometry, hyperbolic angle is a real number determined by the area of the corresponding hyperbolic sector of xy = 1 in Quadrant I of the Cartesian plane.

  9. Intersection number - Wikipedia

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    Let X be a Riemann surface.Then the intersection number of two closed curves on X has a simple definition in terms of an integral. For every closed curve c on X (i.e., smooth function :), we can associate a differential form of compact support, the Poincaré dual of c, with the property that integrals along c can be calculated by integrals over X: