Rotating strings
Classical Physics
2013-05-22 v3 Soft Condensed Matter
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Analytical expressions are provided for the configurations of an inextensible, flexible, twistable inertial string rotating rigidly about a fixed axis. Solutions with trivial radial dependence are helices of arbitrary radius and pitch. Non-helical solutions are governed by a cubic equation whose roots delimit permissible values of the squared radial coordinate. Only curves coplanar with the axis of rotation make contact with it.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.4941,
title = {Rotating strings},
author = {J. A. Hanna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.4941},
year = {2013}
}
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