Tangential and Normal components of Acceleration | Multi-variable Calculus

Acceleration can be decomposed into a component that is tangential and a component that is normal to the path of a particle, sometimes called centripetal acceleration . In this video, we'll explore the intuition and then use multivariable calculus to come up with formulas to describe these two components, in terms of the velocity of the particle and the curvature of the curve. This creates a right triangle with sides parallel to the unit Tangent vector and the unit Normal vector.

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