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What is curvature of a curve?

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Answer: curvature, in mathematics, the rate of change of direction of a curve with respect to distance along the curve.

The curvature(K) of a path is measured using the radius of the curvature of the path at the given point. If y = f(x) is a curve at a particular point, then the formula for curvature is given as K = 1/R.

Intuitively, the curvature describes for any part of a curve how much the curve direction changes over a small distance travelled (e.g. angle in rad/m), so it is a measure of the instantaneous rate of change of direction of a point that moves on the curve: the larger the curvature, the larger this rate of change.

The radius of the approximate circle at a particular point is the radius of curvature. The curvature vector length is the radius of curvature. The radius changes as the curve moves.

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