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

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

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.

how did you do it?

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

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.

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.