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Reducing tex2html_wrap_inline266 to the curve

The next step is even easier than the last. Although the vector field tex2html_wrap_inline266 is defined almost everywhere, we are only interested in its values along C. Points on C are given by the position vector tex2html_wrap_inline332 , so at the ith point (of our N points) we have tex2html_wrap_inline372 and tex2html_wrap_inline374 so that, at this point, the vecotr field has the value

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Vector Calculus
Sun Jul 27 11:36:39 MST 1997