What I did last time was to show you how to handle motion in more than one dimension.

上节课的内容,是用多维矢量描述运动

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The fact that when you go in a circle, you accelerate is what we're learning here, coming from the fact that velocity is a vector and its change can be due to change in the magnitude or change in direction.

而当你做圆周运动时你也在加速,这是我们在这里所学到的,原因就在于,速度是一个矢量,其变化可以通过改变模长,或者方向来实现

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We know it's going around in a circle because if I find the length of this vector, which is the x-square part, plus the y-square part, I just get r square at all times, because sine square plus cosine square is one.

我们之所以知道它做圆周运动,是因为我求出了这个矢量的模长,也就是 x 的平方加上 y 的平方,我就得到了它在任意时刻的模长平方,因为正弦平方加余弦平方始终等于1

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