Characterizations of slant helices in Euclidean 3-space

By L. Kula, N. Ekmekçi, Y. Yaylı, K. Ilarslan. Turkish Journal of Mathematics, 2010

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In this paper we investigate the relations between a general helix and a slant helix. Moreover, we obtain some differential equations which they are characterizations for a space curve to be a slant helix. Also, we obtain the slant helix equations and its Frenet aparatus.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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