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Graduate Finding the Radius of Curvature for a Helix: What is the Formula?
Helix Radius I've seen vaiants of formulas such as amcavoy suggests in his second post. They do the job, but it bothered me that a Pathagorean approach was used when trig should offer a streamlined version. This is what I formulated: R = r(cos)^2 where the cos is derived from the slope...- bobb513
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- Forum: Differential Geometry