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Thanks, Orodruin.

Thanks Orodruin. Is there a physical interpretation to the partial derivative of the surface normal with respect to time? Or in other words, it seems from applying the chain rule for ##\displaystyle\frac{d{\mathbf{n}}}{dt}## that \begin{equation} \frac{\partial {\mathbf{n}}}{\partial...

This stems from considering rigid body transformations, but is a general question about total derivatives. Something is probably missing in my understanding here. I had posted this to math.stackexchange, but did not receive any answers and someone suggested this forum might be more suitable. A...