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Mathematical Expression Editor
Suppose is a vector-valued function; its image is a curve in .
Let be the derivative, and be the second derivative.
Suppose for all that .
Then .
We are told that .
Therefore .
By the product rule, is .
By commutativity of dot product, this means that is .