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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Berea_College/Introductory_Physics%3A_Berea_College/04%3A_Describing_Motion_in_Multiple_Dimensions/4.03%3A_Motion_in_three_dimensions
      The big challenge was to expand our description of motion from one dimension to two. Adding a third dimension ends up being trivial now that we know how to use vectors. In three dimensions, we describ...The big challenge was to expand our description of motion from one dimension to two. Adding a third dimension ends up being trivial now that we know how to use vectors. In three dimensions, we describe the position of a point using three coordinates, so all of the vectors simply have three independent components, but are treated in exactly the same way as in the two dimensional case. The position of an object is now described by three independent functions, x(t), y(t), z(t).

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