I am not sure what is supposed to be here, but something is an improvement on nothing, perhaps.
so here are some criticisms:
- playground does not allow one to play.
- I would not suggest \(\vec a\) as the name of an arbitrary vector, and certainly not \(\vec a_x\). But \(\hat e_x\) should be mentioned.
- “While these points of view are equivalent,” if we agree on the directions of the coordinate system
- “we never use subscripts to denote derivatives” Does anyone? Is this worth mentioning? I know in GR one uses subscripts preceeded by a comma or semicolon, but not without, I think. And in any case that seems premature to mentions here.
Joel Shapiro
Responses by TD:
- playground is locked down for security reasons;
- have changed $\vec a$ to $\vec w$, but $\vec a_x$ is used in engineering to denote $x$ basis vector;
- OK;
- Yes! All calculus texts use subscripts to denote partial derivatives!