Another latex question.

[Johnny5]

Is there any way to put a dot above something.

 

I am going to use [math] \omega [/math] to denote angular velocity, and I want to put a dot over the omega symbol, to denote the angular acceleration. The notation [math] \frac{d\omega}{dt} [/math] is too cumbersome for what I want to do.

 

Thank you

[ydoaPs]

isn't angular acceleration [math]\alpha[/math]?

[Johnny5]

isn't angular acceleration [math]\alpha[/math']?

 

Yes, but during the derivation, i want to put dots over things, to denote differentiation with respect to time, and I'm sure you can do it with Latex, but I just don't know how.

 

[math] \dot\omega [/math]

 

WOW! I just made a blind child's guess and it worked. Ok i answered my own question, with my very first guess. I'm sure that doesn't happen too often.

[ydoaPs]

how did you do it?

[timo]

Well, what would you expect to be the command for a dot? .... it´s "\dot" . two dots is "\ddot", btw

[matt grime]

many commands in LaTeX are "what you'd guess". you want an alpha? it's slash alpha. you want to underline? \underline{ text to underline}. there are also underbrace, overbar and other things too.

[ku]

Yes I noticed that with \bigcup [math]\bigcup[/math], although you have to write \partial for [math]\partial[/math] when I thought it would be \del.