It's good to have a vector pointing in the radial direction of length one.

所以引入这么一个模长为 1,方向沿圆心向外辐射的矢量作用很大

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At each point, er is a different vector pointing in the radial direction of length one.

矢量 er 在每一点处都不同,方向都从圆心指向该点,模长为1

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