Thread: Are the two curve being equivalent....

dear all, are the following two curves

and

being equivalent?

Here, equivalence means that the two curves coincide after a rigid motion.

I find the second curve has curvature , and torsion . However, it is difficult to solve the first one, and seems the result is not the same as the second one.

3x.

Originally Posted by xinglongdada

dear all, are the following two curves

and

being equivalent?

Here, equivalence means that the two curves coincide after a rigid motion.

I find the second curve has curvature , and torsion . However, it is difficult to solve the first one, and seems the result is not the same as the second one.

3x.

This is the correct approach, so how did you try to calculate the torsion of the first one? Don't tell me you just didn't feel like doing the formula.

I am sorry that the problem typed in the book is wrong. And it is natural that I could not verify. Thx.