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Cylindrical-helix tangency construction

A circular helix on a circular cylinder has radial ambient acceleration and is therefore a geodesic. Any surface tangent to the cylinder along that helix has the same curve as a geodesic.

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  1. Tangency invariance of an ambient-surface geodesic
  2. Geodesic
  3. Riemannian geometry
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