Then, I gave you one other very important example of a particle moving in the x-y plane.

下面我再拿一个重要的例子,质点在 x-y 平面内的运动

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Our picture now is going to be some particle that's traveling in the x-y plane.

我们现在的情景是在 x-y 平面内,运动的质点

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And that's the following. Let's take a particle that is moving in the x-y plane, so that at one instance-- sorry, let me change this graph-- is here--oh, this is bad.

接下来,我们来看一个物体,在 x-y 平面内运动,在这个例子中,对不起,我要重画一下这个图,在这里,这画得不好

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For example, suppose you use vertical motion and you use y instead of x; and a would be g or -g; that's a particle falling down under the affect of gravity.

例如,假设在竖直运动中,你用 y 来代替 x,那么 a 就是 g 或者 -g,这就是一个受重力作用下落的质点

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