January 1998 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service American Alligator Alligator mississippiensis A member of the crocodile family, the American alligator is a living fossil from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years.anuary 1998 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service American Alligator Alligator mississippiensis A member of the crocodile family, the American alligator is a living fossil from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years.
Tangential Speed is equal to the instantaneous linear speed of the particle at any point on the curved path. Tangential speed at any point is equal to the multiplication of the radius of curvature and angular speed at a particular point on the curved path. Angular speed is defined as the time rate of change of the angular displacement along the curved path.
A tangent is an entirely different topic or direction. When you want a break from geometry class, you might ask your teacher about his hobby of woodworking, a topic that's always good for a ten-minute tangent. Tangent is mainly a mathematical term, meaning a line or plane that touches a curved surface but doesn't intersect it. The non-mathematical meaning of tangent comes from this sense of barely touching something: when a conversation heads off on a tangent, it's hard to see how or why it came up.