SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN NORMAL AND RECTIFYING CURVES IN MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME

Year 2014, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 26 - 35, 30.04.2014

Kazim İlarslan , Emilija Nešovıć

https://doi.org/10.36890/iejg.594491

Cited By: 6

Abstract

Keywords

rectifying curve, normal curve, Minkowski space-time

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