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Lecture
Acceleration and geodesics
Description
This lecture introduces the concept of acceleration along a curve on a manifold induced by a connection, defining it as the covariant derivative of the curve's velocity. It explains how a curve with zero acceleration for all times is called a geodesic, generalizing the notion of straight lines to manifolds, illustrated with the example of a great circle on a sphere.
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