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Definition of Geodesics
1. geodesic [n] - See also: geodesic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geodesics
Literary usage of Geodesics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The differential equation of geodesics, derived from the definition, ... NTIAL)
it follows, that an infinity of geodesics may be drawn at any point of a ..."
2. Geometry of Riemannian Spaces by Elie Cartan (1983)
"NOTE IV ThE geodesics OF NORMAL RIEMANNIAN SPACES I. AM EXISTENCE THEOREM 1. ...
With this established, let us consider all the semi-geodesics stemming from ..."
3. Gauge Fields and Cartan-Ehresmann Connections by Robert Hermann (1975)
"CONJUGATE POINTS AND LOCAL MAXIMIZATION OF PROPER-TIME FOR TIME LIKE geodesics
After this side trip into “convexity,” let us return to the main topic of ..."
4. Yang-Mills, Kaluza-Klein, and the Einstein Program by Robert Hermann (1978)
"With the formulas of Section 16, we can readily compute the geodesics of the metric.
Projected down to H, they would be the generalizations to ..."
5. The Classical Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Georges Valiron (1986)
"An asymptotic direction is perpendicular to its spherical representation. II.
GEODESIC CURVATURE AND TORSION geodesics - ISOMETRIC SURFACES 231 . ..."
6. The Theory of General Relativity and Gravitation: Based on a Course of by Ludwik Silberstein (1922)
"Next for the geodesics of the world. The developed form of their differential
equations is easily derived from their original definition (II), ..."
7. A Treatise on the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart (1909)
"geodesics 77. Asymptotic lines. We have said that the asymptotic lines on a
surface are the double family of curves whose tangents at any point are ..."
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