Intrinsic equations for a relaxed elasti
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H. K. Nickerson; Gerald S. Manning
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Article
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1988
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Springer
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English
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p. 221] incorrectly suggested a flexible knitting needle, constrained to conform to a surface, as one model for a geodesic on a surface. This model actually gives a relaxed elastic line on the surface, and is not generally a geodesic unless the surface lies in a plane or on a sphere. In this paper