Timeline for When are geodesics straight lines?
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| Mar 8, 2018 at 7:30 | history | edited | Ben McKay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
removed irrelevant references to a Riemannian metric
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| Mar 8, 2018 at 7:12 | comment | added | Ben McKay | If the connection coefficients are zero, just write down the geodesic equation: $\ddot{x}+\Gamma \dot{x} \dot{x}=0$, with $\Gamma=0$, to get $\ddot{x}=0$, i.e. no acceleration, i.e. constant velocity, i.e. linear motion. | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 7:10 | answer | added | Ben McKay | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 7, 2018 at 23:00 | history | edited | YCor |
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| Mar 7, 2018 at 22:45 | history | asked | AaronDefazio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |